Using Home and Student 2007

[yamkela]

I just want to confirm that it is not legal for a church to use Office home and student 2007.

It states in the License agreement:

a. Licensed Device. You may install one copy of the software on three
licensed devices in your household for use by people who reside there. The
software is not licensed for use in any commercial, non-profit, or revenue-generating business activities.

This would include a church, right?

[cmchamp]

correct

[[Admin] skstarkiller]

You can get a non-profit license for your church

[yamkela]

Thank you for the prompt replies.

What are the best websites to attain a non-profit license from?

[[Admin] skstarkiller]

call cdw.com and ask about their non-profit licensning

[DaveJ]

I have purchased non-profit software from Consistent Computer Bargains, Inc.

[cmchamp]

cdw's been good for our small charter school.

[daver2]

Do you have to use a Microsoft product for compatability or familiarity reasons? Would Open Office be an alternative (which is open source)? Our Church administrator uses Microsoft Office for compatability reasons - but the AV team use Open Office for our general document bashing which costs us nada.

Dave

[yamkela]

Thanks for the suppliers everyone.

Originally Posted by daver2

Do you have to use a Microsoft product for compatability or familiarity reasons? Would Open Office be an alternative (which is open source)? Our Church administrator uses Microsoft Office for compatability reasons - but the AV team use Open Office for our general document bashing which costs us nada.

Dave

We use PowerPoint because that's what our pastor has been using for years, and after getting him to try it out he wasn't willing to make the big switch to OpenOffice.

Since we must change now, maybe I'll see if he'll give it another chance. But since we'd only need it for the projector computer and his laptop, then we would only need one copy of MS office.

Currently our office is using MS Office 2003 Professional. But my plan is to switch things over to OpenOffice or Lotus Symphony eventually.

[DaveJ]

If you are using church presentation software, Open Office may not work. I know that Open Office does not work with Easy Worship 2007. I priced Office standard 2010 from one non profit vendor and the cost was $59 per license.

[yamkela]

Running PowerPoint in Easy Worship 2009 doesn't work with the romotes we have. If you click "next" on the remote it moves to the next item in the Easy Worship cue. So we just run the presentation right in PowerPoint.

[gower2352]

You could also call Microsoft.