Re: MS Project 2003 Demo
From: Steve House (sjhouse.remove.this_at_to.send.hotmail.com)
Date: 02/04/04
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Date: 4 Feb 2004 06:09:17 -0600
Perhaps MS considers sending time-limited evaluation copies to be more
effective marketing that stripped down limited-functionality model
products. Perhaps it's just personal preference - I'd rather work with
the full for-real product for limited period of time than just see what
is effectively a slide show of how they hope the product will perform in
my environment. As to waiting time for CD to arrive, given the price
and organizational implications of rolling out MS Project, I'm not going
to be making spur-of-the-moment decisions anyway so the time difference
in acquisitions time between a download and snail-mail is not going to
impact my decision cycle to any extent at all. What does NOT make any
sense to me is that MS had the same "one CD - one CPU" activation scheme
on the evaluation disk that they do on the regular product. It seems
counter-productive - that as a marketing tool they'd *want* you to order
an eval disk and install it on as many desktops in your company that you
can. Couldn't get better free advertising than to get the eval into as
many hands as possible and get them used to using it. Then when it
times-out in a few months there's bound to be a groundswell of demand to
purchase it.
"Jason" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C5C90EEC-3F66-4EED-9567-D7A189216672@microsoft.com...
> No, P3 does not have a demo version available for download...however,
it is not the comparable product to MS-P (as you stated). SureTrak is
more of a direct comparison to MS-P.
>
> Looks as though Microsoft did not do as thorough of a job as Primavera
in defining what was necessary for a demo product. Doesn't it make more
sense to have a non-expiring demo, but with a limited number of tasks?
This way many could share and evaluate the product, without the
temptation to actually use it to plan a real project.
>
> Steve: Would you rather spend 1-2 hours downloading a demo, or wait
5-10 days for a CD in the mail?? Especially with the number of people
who have broadband access at home, work, or both.
>
> I guess my point is that Microsoft needs to learn how to discover what
the customers' real needs are....not just what MS 'believes' they are.
I have been an MS product user since the days that Office was purchased
on 28 3.5" floppies, and would like to continue to be so....but not if
their over-confidence in themselves causes them to loose sight of
customer needs/wants.
>
> ----- Arthur wrote: -----
>
> Primavera's SureTrak Project Manager is available as a "working
model"
> download. No functional limitations or timestamp, but a limit to
the number
> of activities. Primavera's much more sophisticated (compared
with either
> SureTrak or MS-P) "high-end" solutions do not have either
downloads or demo
> CDs.
>
> "Steve House" <sjhouse.remove.this@to.send.hotmail.com> wrote in
message
> news:4018e8b6$0$77257$45beb828@newscene.com...
> > It's rather large to download. I don't know what the demo for
Primavera
> > contains but the Project demo is actually the full retail
version of
> > Project Standard. It has all the functionality of the full
product but
> > times out after the evaluation period expires.
> >> --
> > Steve House
> > MS Project MVP
> > Visit http://www.mvps.org/project/faqs.htm for the FAQs
> >>> "Jason" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
> > news:B62F8E92-11FE-4BE0-B283-E5278022E766@microsoft.com...
> >> I see on the MS Project website that there is a demo version
of 2003
> > available, but that it must be mail ordered. Does anyone know
where
> > this demo might be downloaded instead? Wouldn't you think that
the
> > largest software company would offer something other than snail
> > mail?...especially when Primavera has demos available for
download.
> >>
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