Hugh Wyn Griffith wrote:[color=blue]
> In article <F7D9BE5A-CA63-4FD1-8CF7-47A0F55750E0@microsoft.com>, Sascha
> Benjamin Jazbec wrote:
>[color=green]
>> these are only license issues, it has nothing to do with the feature sets.[/color]
>
> The thread is about license issues ....
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>> "for academic use only" i would bet, you are only allowed to use it for
>> school,university,to do your learning stuff with it, but no private
>> amusements or productive work.[/color]
>
> Actually Microsoft is very broadminded to the extent that anyone can buy
> these versions if they have a student in your family! However you are right
> that you re not licensed to use them for business purposes and you are
> supposed to stop using them when you are no longer a student.[/color]

Not exactly...

Microsoft defines their qualifying criteria as:

- Full- or part-time student

- Home-schooled student

- Full- or part-time faculty or staff of an accredited educational intstitution

- Member of a household meeting any of the above criteria

- Noncommercial use only

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Notan