The difference between MS Office 2003 Professional & MS Office 2003 Student

Factual Questions
1

What is the difference between MS Office 2003 Professional and MS Office 2003 Student?

MS Office Professional can be found here

MS Office Student Edition can be found here

Has anyone out there used both of them?

2

By clicking the Compare similar products icon you get transferred to THIS
page, which lists what the Pro version has over the studen version.

3

Ok great, but is the word in student teacher, the same word that is in professional?

4

I suppose they might have stipped out some of the back-office stuff, which is bloat for most people anyway. Though I did try using the executive summary once for writing an abstract, just to see what it would kick out. However, generally, the only difference is price, not whatever is in the code.

5

As far as I know it is. If there are any differences at all, they would be minor.

6

Yes, it is.

The Student and Teacher edition comes with three licenses (ie, you can install it on three computers).

It’s cheaper cos they want to get students hooked on MS apps from an early ags, so they will be familiar with them when they leave school and move to the work force. If all an employer’s employees resumes read “proficient in MS Word”, they may as well buy the Business version of MS Word, right?

Kinda like drug dealers, I guess.

I do not think this op is entirely fringe, but I’d be interested to hear other opinooins on this.

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7

I agree that the differences are the licensing and the inclusion of Publisher and Access in Pro. Seeing as how I have a copy of Publisher from Office XP that I never use (and a copy of Access that I can get just by reinstalling Office 95 or 97), I’m not sure that it’s worth it if all you want to do is some word processing and maybe a little spreadsheet work. However, if you’re really worried about it, JourneyEd has 2003 Pro for $200 with a $20 rebate, making it $180. Compare that to the $150 of the Student and Teacher edition and the $30 difference might be worth it if you qualify for the student pricing of Pro if you think you’ll ever use Publisher or Access.

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If you’re a university student, you might want to check whether your college has a software purchase program. My university offers Office 2003 (not Pro) to students and faculty for $70.