Office XP Professional Special Edition

[Guest]

I have an OEM copy of Office XP Professional that I bought with my notebook
(new). It also came with Publisher 2002. I want to buy Front Page 2003 but
I'm not sure if I qualify for the upgrade version or if I have to buy the
full version. To qualify for the upgrade version, apparently you need Office
XP Professional Special Edition. Is Office XP Pro with Publisher considered
the Special Edition ? Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Ronx]

You must have an existing copy of FrontPage 98 or later to qualify for the
upgrade version of FP2003. The copy may be part of an Office suite, or a
standalone version.
Office XP Professional does not include FrontPage, therefore does not
qualify.

Office XP Premium Special Edition (not Professional) does qualify, since it
includes FrontPage.

 

[Guest]

Thanx Ron. That's all I needed to know.

You must have an existing copy of FrontPage 98 or later to qualify for the
upgrade version of FP2003. The copy may be part of an Office suite, or a
standalone version.
Office XP Professional does not include FrontPage, therefore does not
qualify.

Office XP Premium Special Edition (not Professional) does qualify, since it
includes FrontPage.

 

[Andrew Murray]

The fp 2003 packaging tells you the complying software required for the upgrade
e.g. any version of frontpage prior to 2003 basically.

What is Office Special Edition? Never heard of it (all I know of is Office Small
Business Ed (MS Word, MS Excel, Money and Outlook), Standard (Word, Powerpoint,
Excel, OUtlook), Office Professional Edition (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access &
Outlook) and Office Premium edition (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Outlook &
Publisher).

 

[Ronx]

The full title is Microsoft Office XP Premium Special Edition Upgrade.
It was only available as an upgrade, and only for a short time (about 5 or 6
months.)
It contained the same program set as Office 2000 Premium, except PhotoDraw.
(Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Publisher, FrontPage, Small Business
Customer Manager - PhotoDraw was in office 2000 Premium)