adding powerpoint to an installation of office xp sbe.

[Guest]

I have a customer who bought Office XP SBE. He now requires the use of
Powerpoint. What is the best/least expensive route to provide him with
Powerpoint.
I have attempted to locate the appropriate product, but I am getting
conflicting and confusing information.
I think I need the powerpoint 2003 upgrade, but I find two different SKU's
for the same product, and two different prerequisites. Retail store listings
indicate that a previous version of Powerpoint must be installed before you
install the Powerpoint 2003 upgrade. Microsoft sites indicate that Office XP
SBE is sufficient to qualify for the upgrade.
What gives ????

 

[Echo S]

I have a customer who bought Office XP SBE. He now requires the use of
Powerpoint. What is the best/least expensive route to provide him with
Powerpoint.
I have attempted to locate the appropriate product, but I am getting
conflicting and confusing information.
I think I need the powerpoint 2003 upgrade, but I find two different
SKU's for the same product, and two different prerequisites. Retail
store listings indicate that a previous version of Powerpoint must be
installed before you install the Powerpoint 2003 upgrade. Microsoft
sites indicate that Office XP SBE is sufficient to qualify for the
upgrade.
What gives ????

Yeah, the whole upgrade version vs full version thing can be really
confusing. It used to be worse, though.

To answer your specific question, Office XP SBE is a qualifying product for
the PPT 2003 Upgrade.

So your customer can use the upgrade version. (Let me tell you, I was
*thrilled* when MS made SBE versions qualifiers for the PPT 2003 upgrade,
because that whole scenario of not being able to add PPT to SBE via an
upgrade was a nightmare to explain!)
http://www.microsoft.com/office/powerpoint/howtobuy/default.mspx

If your customer had Office 2003 Basic (which includes Excel, Word and
Outlook), he would need to use PPT 2003 Full stand-alone version to add PPT
to his Office suite, as Office 2003 Basic is not an upgrade qualifier. If he
had any of the other versions of Office 2003 (including Office 2003 SBE),
PowerPoint is already included.

Where'd you find the different SKUs and prereqs? If you have URLs, I'm happy
to look at them and see if we can figure out the discrepancies.

 

[Guest]

Conflicting SKU's -
FIRST ONE __ SKU 079-02323

http://www.microsoft.com/products/i...6ddf2b28-680e-4d77-bcc4-f2f9c3abaf3d&type=ovr

SECOND ONE -- SKU 079-01879

http://bizrate.lycos.com/marketplace/search/search__cid--308,pid--11296704.html

Conflicting prereq's
FIRST - A full version of Powerpoint must be pre-installed
http://www.officedepot.com/ddSKU.do...zRate-_-Shopping Comp-_-Datafeed-_-Technology

SECOND - OFFICE XP SBE is acceptable prereq.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/PowerPoint/howtobuy/default.mspx#EEAA

Thanks

 

[Echo S]

Thanks. (comments inline)

Conflicting SKU's -
FIRST ONE __ SKU 079-02323

http://www.microsoft.com/products/i...6ddf2b28-680e-4d77-bcc4-f2f9c3abaf3d&type=ovr

SECOND ONE -- SKU 079-01879

http://bizrate.lycos.com/marketplace/search/search__cid--308,pid--11296704.html

I think MS might have changed their SKUs and probably the bizrate site is
using an old (or the original) MS SKU. [How's that for being definitive?
]

The 01879 SKU does show up as PPT 2003 Upgrade in some MS documents, but you
have to use Google to find them. <sigh>

http://www.google.com/search?source...004-33,GGLD:en&q=079-01879+site:microsoft.com

Conflicting prereq's
FIRST - A full version of Powerpoint must be pre-installed
http://www.officedepot.com/ddSKU.do...zRate-_-Shopping Comp-_-Datafeed-_-Technology

SECOND - OFFICE XP SBE is acceptable prereq.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/PowerPoint/howtobuy/default.mspx#EEAA

I suspect that the Office Depot blurb just took the text from whatever they
had for PPT 2002 and updated it for 2003. And I further suspect that they
had a bunch of customers complain when they tried to use PPT *2002* Upgrade
to add PPT to Office XP SBE (which did not include PPT), so Office Depot
probably put that text in to protect themselves from returns.

I know we saw a fair number of complaints about that very thing here in the
newsgroup -- "The salesperson *assured* me that this upgrade PPT would
work...." We'd tell them that the salesperson was absolutely wrong and to
return the upgrade or exchange it for full PPT. But that was PPT 2002 and
Office XP SBE, not PPT 2003 and Office XP SBE.

I'd go by what it says on the Microsoft links, which is that Office XP SBE
does indeed qualify you to use the PPT *2003* Upgrade to add PPT.