I don't have the time or energy to continue this discussion - as I said
earlier, you are picking the wrong nit.

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After furious head scratching, David Troxell - Encourager Software asked:

| On Sun, 9 May 2010 18:55:15 -0700, Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
| wrote:
|
|| If you reread my response, it was to clarify the support options, not
|| availability.
||
|| BTW, MSDN and TechNet also come in Academic SKUs so not everything is
|| Enterprise/Volume. Heck, if I had the money and the need, I could
|| swing an individual sub myself and I am far from an
|| Enterprise/Volume/Partner.
||
|| I think you are picking the wrong nit here - support is entirely
|| different from licensing.
|
|||||| In Office 2010, Office Professional Plus is a retail license. It
|||||| is no longer restricted to Enterprise/Volume licenses.
|
| Support comes directly from how it is licensed -
|
| Microsoft streamlined the whole office 2010 lineup to this simple
| lineup.
|
| Office 2010 Starter - New PC Only - limited functionality
|
| * * *
|
| Pre-install on PC or Retail Packaged Product
|
| Office Home and Student 2010 - Office Home and Business 2010 - Office
| Professional 2010
|
| * * *
|
| Volume Licensing only
|
| Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 - only available via volume
| licensing
|
| Microsoft Office Standard 2010 - only available via volume licensing
|
| That is publicly stated.
|
| David
|
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|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
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||
|| After furious head scratching, David Troxell - Encourager Software
|| asked:
||
||| On Sun, 9 May 2010 15:26:44 -0700, Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||| wrote:
|||
|||| If you check the MSDN and TechNet downloads, it lists Office 2010
|||| Professional Plus download as a retail SKU. I am not aware if it
|||| is available at online and brick and mortarretail.
||||
|||| My response was to clue in DL that Office 2010 is not only a
|||| VL/Enterprise SKU exclusively. As such, support for that SKU is
|||| not exclusive to the HUP reseller.
|||
||| Milly,
|||
||| I think you are stating "retail" out of context here.
|||
||| MSDN and TechNet are subscription programs, and include volume
||| license offerings such as Office Professional Plus 2007 to those
||| that pay the fee for these specialized subscription programs, and
||| that will include Office Professional Plus 2010.
|||
||| MSDN and TechNet are essentially volume license subscription
||| programs. Yes, there are retail versions of these subscriptions, but
||| that does not make Office Professional Plus 2010 a retail product.
|||
||| David
|||
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|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
|||| ALWAYS post your Outlook version.
|||| How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
||||
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, David Troxell - Encourager Software
|||| asked:
||||
||||| On Sun, 9 May 2010 12:41:23 -0700, Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||| wrote:
|||||
|||||| In Office 2010, Office Professional Plus is a retail license. It
|||||| is no longer restricted to Enterprise/Volume licenses.
|||||
||||| Milly,
|||||
||||| Do you have an updated reference that shows Office 2010
||||| Professional Plus can be bought as a retail license?
|||||
||||| I have access to quite a lot of material as a Microsoft Partner,
||||| and all the PowerPoint Presentations, PDFs, etc (pre-release, of
||||| course) still describe it as a Volume license.
|||||
||||| The current 2010 FAQ describes it as such (Volume license), and
||||| Pre-order, to this point, does not include it.
|||||
||||| Microsoft Office 2010 FAQ
|||||
||||| http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010...px#5zzs104007q
|||||
||||| Pre-order Office 2010 Suites
|||||
||||| Office Home and Student 2010 - Office Home and Business 2010 -
||||| Office Professional 2010
|||||
|||||
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||
http://store.microsoft.com/microsoft...s/category/210
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||||| David
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|||||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
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||||||
|||||| After furious head scratching, DL asked:
||||||
||||||| Since Pro Plus is a volume license you would need to seek
||||||| support from your Home IT dept, or via the phone numbers given
||||||| with your 'purchase' of Pro Plus
|||||||
||||||| "pauldemo" wrote in message
||||||| ...
|||||||| Trying to install Office Pro Plus 2010 in Win 7 unltimate 32bit
|||||||| downloaded from technet as the installer was starting to run
|||||||| got this error "Error 2203.
|||||||| An internal error has occurred.
|||||||| (C:windows\installer\546ca7b.ipi -2147287035)