Academic License of Visual Studio Tools for Office 2003

[Guest]

Hello,

2 Questions:

1. Does the academic license of Visual Studio Tools for Office 2003 contain the license necessary to distribute royalty-free copies of the Microsoft Access 2003 Runtime?

2. I read on this forum that the Access 2003 runtime will only work on Win 2000/xp or above. Why is this? Is it down to .NET framework? If so, can older users not just download that, and be up and running?

Thank you very much for your time!

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

If I recall correctly, the Academic License doesn't allow you to distribute
anything commercially, if that's what you're interested in doing.

I don't believe that the OS restrictions have anything to do with the .NET
framework: Access doesn't use .NET

The Access 2003 runtime only works on Win 2000 (SP3) or Win XP because those
are the requirements for Office 2003 (see
http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/prodinfo/proreq.mspx) The Access
runtime is the same executable used for the full retail version. Hundreds of
registry entries limit what it can do, as opposed to it being a separate
executable with functionality removed.

--
Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP

(No private e-mails, please)

Hello,

2 Questions:

1. Does the academic license of Visual Studio Tools for Office 2003

contain the license necessary to distribute royalty-free copies of the
Microsoft Access 2003 Runtime?

2. I read on this forum that the Access 2003 runtime will only work on

Win 2000/xp or above. Why is this? Is it down to .NET framework? If so,
can older users not just download that, and be up and running?