04.18
I have been sorting through SKU’s all day trying to come up with a
purchase order for our firm’s upgrade to Exchange. We are moving to
Exchange from Groupwise 5.5. In the process we are upgrading everyone
to Microsoft Office 2003. While I was trying to figure out what all we
needed to get a final price I realized that the boxed versions of
Office are actually cheaper than their licensing counterparts because
in licensing their are no “upgrade” versions, only the full product.
Why would I buy into a licensing program that forces me to upgrade
every 3 years when it costs more than buying it off the shelf with no
expirations to worry about. Man, that makes no sense. Microsoft
should either get rid of the boxed upgrade versions or offer incentives
to non-licensing customers to enter the program for the first time.
Either way you slice it, Office is one expensive piece of software.
$400 per computer bites.
