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Unlocking Success: Navigating the Maze of Software Licensing

Name: Unlocking Success: Navigating the Maze of Software Licensing
Uploaded: 2024-02-22T05:00:01+00:00
Duration: 54 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: Mike Austin (speaker) demonstrates how to look up Microsoft Office desktop application licensing by searching the product ("office") and reviewing the…

22 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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Mike Austin (speaker) demonstrates how to look up Microsoft Office desktop application licensing by searching the product ("office") and reviewing the returned use rates, product terms, and licensing options. He explains differences between user-based and device-based licenses, where Office is included (e.g., O365 user licenses), considerations like prior-version rights and work-at-home rights, and notes that Office Home and Student is not for corporate use. The clip is a practical walkthrough of how to find and interpret desktop application licensing details.

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So you know, I just went and look, you know, searched office over here, right? And then it's going to tell me what the use rates are, what the product terms are. So if I want to look at office desktop apps, I'm going to select that and then it's going to give me all the information, right? So it's going to tell me the different ways that I can license, it's going to tell me the programs that I can buy through. So I would see in here that it's included in user licenses for O365, that it's device based licenses. So you can see here, right, like now I can kind of start to see where it is. How do I license what prior versions there are? Do I get work at home rights? You know, what can I do with it? What are the use rights for it? They have an office, home and student version. Cool. Maybe we have a lot of students and want to go look at that. Can't use that in a corporate environment. But you kind of get the point, right? Here's how the desktop licensing model works. So this is telling us basically how we account.