Academic License of Visual Studio Tools for Office 2003

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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!
 
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)


Steve C said:
Hello,

2 Questions:

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