Microsoft Access

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Bob Klein

I purchased a copy of Office XP for Students and
Teachers. Now I need Access for school. Is it necessary
to buy a full blown copy or will an upgrade work with the
XP I have? Also is it available as a student/teacher
copy that would probably cost less. Would it have to be a
full blown or an upgrade?
 
Since you don't already have Access, I don't believe you'll be able to use
an Upgrade version. Upgrade versions check for the existence of previous
version of Access, and the installation won't work if it doesn't find one.

To be honest, I'm not sure what qualitifes for an Academic Discount anymore,
although I know it certainly used to be possible to purchase Access that
way.Take a look at http://www.microsoft.com/Education/AcademicDiscounts.aspx
and see whether you can find anything.
 
In general, MS uses generic upgrade products: the upgrade
from Office 97 Standard (Academic Price) to Office 2003 Pro
(Full Price) is the same as the upgrade from Office 2002 Pro
to Office 2003 Pro. There are not many different upgrade
products: only a few.

The system requirement for Access XP is "Windows 98, Windows 98
Second Edition, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows NT Workstation
4.0 with SP6 or later, or Windows 2000 or later"
You don't need any version of Office at all, and there is no
special price if you do.

Academic Pricing is generally a pricing and marketing model,
not a software difference: What you want is the Academic
Price on Access XP. I don't know if you will be able to find
that on a new boxed product, but any copy of Access XP that
you can get should work ok.

(david)
 
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