microsoft office

[fifth1found]

i'm so confused, and this may be a dumb question but i
just recently bought a new HP with windows xp home
edition, but when i got home and set it up microsoft
office wasn't on the computer... is microsoft office part
of windows xp HOME EDITION?

 

[Norm]

Microsoft Office is a seperate product and never was part of any OS.

 

[fifthfound]

so it is not part of professional either? and now since i
want microspft office do i have to buy the cd specifically
for that?
thanx a lot for ur patience

 

[The Reverend XP]

Office must be purchased seperately. All you get is the
OS. Good luck.

 

[Jim Macklin]

Yes, you must BUY a MS OFFICE on CD. Some computer
manufacturers do bundle applications with some retail sales
packages and this has caused new computer users and some
older ones too, to think that Windows XP includes Office XP.

There are basically two versions of OFFICE and several price
options.
OFFICE standard includes WORD, PowerPoint, Excel and
Outlook.
OFFICE Professional adds Access, a database management
program.
Both of these are available to teachers and students at a
very big discount but with severe license restrictions.
There is also an OEM OFFICE which is usually called Small
Business Edition SBE and it leaves PowerPoint off and adds
Publisher (if I remember correctly). SBE is not generally
found on store shelves and the student/teacher version of
OFFICE Professional usually has to be ordered on-line.


| so it is not part of professional either? and now since i
| want microspft office do i have to buy the cd specifically
| for that?
| thanx a lot for ur patience

 

[Alex Nichol]

i'm so confused, and this may be a dumb question but i
just recently bought a new HP with windows xp home
edition, but when i got home and set it up microsoft
office wasn't on the computer... is microsoft office part
of windows xp HOME EDITION?

No. Office is a separate (and quite expensive) product from Windows,
that has always been sold separately, though makers of new machines may
'bundle' it in

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Neither the Microsoft Office application suite, nor any of its
individual component applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access,
Outlook, etc.), have _ever_ been "part" of *any* Windows operating
system. They are, and always have been, separate applications, that
must be purchased and installed separately.


Bruce Chambers

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