VPC for G5 without office?

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Mitch Cohen - 26 Apr 2004 00:23 GMT

Will VPC 7 be available as a separate product/upgrade? I'll need it for my
new G5, but have no need for the new Office. Thus far I'm only seeing VPC 7
listed as an afterthought in the pre-release marketing/previews.

Thanks.

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Dan Birchall - 26 Apr 2004 09:02 GMT

> Will VPC 7 be available as a separate product/upgrade? I'll need it
> for my new G5, but have no need for the new Office. Thus far I'm
> only seeing VPC 7 listed as an afterthought in the pre-release
> marketing/previews.

That's because right now the pre-release marketing/previews are *for* Office.
Non-"Pro" versions of Office are due out in the next month, so that's what
all the buzz is about. The "Pro" version (with VPC7) isn't coming until the
June-July timeframe (exactly when depends who you believe ;) so there's less
"certain" about that stuff.

There's going to have to be an upgrade from 6->7, just like there would be
for a new version of anything else. The upgrade price to VPC 6 was only
about $80. I have VPC 6, but not Office, so I'm *not* about to shell out
$455 for Office 2004 Pro just to get VPC 7. Yeesh. Even the $290 price
to upgrade from Office v.X (if I *had* it) isn't much cheaper than flat-out
*buying* Office 2004 Standard and spending $80 on a VPC upgrade - and if I
were buying Office 2004, I'd probably be going for the student & teacher
version, anyway.

Yeah, I really expect upgrade pricing for VPC - Microsoft's smart enough to
not piss off large portions of a product's customer base. I hope ;)

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