GS wrote:

Excel must be purchased for personal use and/or volume licensed for
corporate use.

I've just read through the Excel EULA. See:

http://download.microsoft.com/Docume...51bcbc7423.pdf

Nowhere does it state a /single/ retail licence cannot be use for
commercial purpose. In a turnkey setup, no one would be bundling in a
Home and Student, military, NFR, or CANEX version of Excel or in use for
in a software hosting scenario and those are the only ones where
commercial use is probhited. You inferred that a business would need a
volume license to use Excel. Not according to Microsoft's EULA.

No, I did not infer that! See below...

Please indicate where you cite that Excel must be purchases as a volume
license for commercial use, and that a retail license is invalid for
commercial use.

I did not state it MUST be purchased as a volume license; - just saying volume
licenses are available (for any use for that matter). Most IT pros in large
corporations usually prefer volume licenses for whatever MSO editions they run
throughout their networks.

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Garry

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