Re: can i downgrade from windows2003 to xp version 2002?

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Ah, too late, you could have gone to Amazon.com and gotten the software a
LOT cheaper and had the CD to boot.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000BZ54L/qid=1151545924/sr=8-2/ref=pd_bbs_2/103-6362363-8351803?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=229534

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After furious head scratching, anne asked:

| Thank you for your reply! I ended up "converting" my Office 2003.
| It was expensive (250+), but had to have it! Thanks again
|
| "LVTravel" wrote:
|
|| Anne, there is no such thing as Windows 2003 trial version.
|| Windows is the operating system and it doesn't include any
|| Office product (word, excel etc.) Windows does come in a
|| 2003 version but it is Server software and not used for
|| normal desktop or laptop systems.
||
|| What I believe you have is MS Office 2003 trial version.
||
|| You may delete the trial version and install any "legal"
|| copy of Office XP or 2003 you may have (I say legal in
|| quotes in reference to the end user's license agreement in
|| effect for the software you have.) By deleting you would
|| lose any Office settings but not the data created in it.
|| Office XP that came with a previous computer may in fact be
|| OEM software and it is forever tied to the original machine
|| it came on. If it is a retail (the CD doesn't state for
|| sale with a new PC), either upgrade (need a previous
|| qualifying product) or new install, you may install it onto
|| the machine if it has been removed from the previous
|| machine.
||
|| If it is an OEM version, you would need to purchase a NEW
|| installation CD, not an upgrade CD of the version of Office
|| you need. Amazon has as good a value as you could get on
|| the software. If you qualify, MS's version called Student
|| and Teacher edition can be had for about $130.00 but can't
|| later be upgraded to a newer version. What ever you do,
|| stay away from eBay purchases of any software. Those sales
|| that are "too good to be true" normally are "too good to be
|| true" and you will probably be taken for your money.
||
|| Open Office is also an alternative to purchasing Office. It
|| has Word processor, Spread***, Presentation, and data base
|| program modules that will read and save MS Office format
|| files. They will do a lot of what MS Office will do and it
|| is FREE. http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.2/index.html
||
||
|| "anne" <anne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
|| news:E0043926-A633-47E5-8E9E-55DB93204301@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
||| I bought a pc with the trial software. It is windows 2003.
||| I need word,
||| excel, powerpoint and would have to upgrade. I have
||| windows xp version 2002
||| from a previous PC. Can I load this? Will I lose
||| anything?


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