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<blockquote data-quote="technologist" data-source="post: 52850" data-attributes="member: 4134">There is no verification.<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office2004/howtobuy/howtobuy.aspx?pid=qualifiedUser" target="_blank">Office 2004 How To Buy</a>(The license also explicitly permits &quot;vocational school, correspondence school, technical school, scientific school, junior college, college, university, or other institution<s>&quot;)</s><s></s><s></s><s></s><s>In other words, even Kindergarten students technically qualify. Kindergarten students don't usually have student IDs. (Or buy much software, for that matter...) So why would Microsoft do this?</s><s></s><s>If you ask me, the &quot;Student and Teacher Edition&quot; is just a way of selling Office for a lower cost to almost anyone. Before, Office cost $400+, and few people could afford it. Some pirated it, and some used AppleWorks or something else. Microsoft, known for its business sense, figured it'd be better to sell lots of copies at $150 than a handful at $400. Microsoft would rather people buy the &quot;Full&quot; editon, of course but realistically, it'll take what it can get.</s></blockquote>

[QUOTE="technologist, post: 52850, member: 4134"] There is no verification. [URL=http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office2004/howtobuy/howtobuy.aspx?pid=qualifiedUser]Office 2004 How To Buy[/URL] [SIZE=1](The license also explicitly permits "vocational school, correspondence school, technical school, scientific school, junior college, college, university, or other institution[s]")[/s][/SIZE][s] In other words, even Kindergarten students technically qualify. Kindergarten students don't usually have student IDs. (Or buy much software, for that matter...) So why would Microsoft do this? If you ask me, the "Student and Teacher Edition" is just a way of selling Office for a lower cost to almost anyone. Before, Office cost $400+, and few people could afford it. Some pirated it, and some used AppleWorks or something else. Microsoft, known for its business sense, figured it'd be better to sell lots of copies at $150 than a handful at $400. Microsoft would rather people buy the "Full" editon, of course but realistically, it'll take what it can get.[/s] [/QUOTE]

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