Ever considering that Microsoft launched Office 2010 this past summer, I;ve been hearing from small-business users who had been dismayed with Microsoft;s new licensing restrictions on its up-to-date Company Contact Manager (BCM) component.On September 23,
Office Professional Plus 2007, Microsoft officials acknowledged they;d heard the complaints, also,
Purchase Office 2010, and had decided to make BCM downloadable for free for Workplace consumers who didn;t desire to need to become volume licensees to be able to acquire their attempted and true contact-management technology.(Microsoft execs informed me in early July that they had been finalizing programs for making the BCM on the market to non-volume licensees.)Justin Hutchinson,
Microsoft Office Pro 2007, a Director on the Microsoft Office staff, blogged about Microsoft;s preliminary factors for restricting BCM availability. He mentioned:“(W)e underestimated the importance of BCM to our little organization customers who purchase Office through retail. Worse yet, we left many of our customers, who didn’t would like to buy through volume licensing, stranded with data locked in previous versions of Workplace.“This was a mistake and today we’re announcing a program to make sure that millions of BCM customers,
Office 2007 Professional Key, who don’t want to buy through volume licensing, aren’t stranded.”So that you can be capable of access the downloadable BCM,
Office 2007 Professional Plus Key, customers will need to have purchased one of the following: Workplace Little Company Edition 2003 or Workplace Professional Edition 2003Office Little Organization 2007 or Office Professional 2007 or Office Ultimate 2007A stand-alone edition of Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 or 2007 And also will need to have to have purchased one of the following versions of Workplace 2010: Microsoft Workplace Home and Business 2010Microsoft Workplace Professional 2010A stand-alone edition of Microsoft Outlook 2010 “We apologize to our loyal customers who were adversely affected by this oversight,” Hutchinson said.Based on some of the feedback I;ve been getting from BCM customers, I;d say Microsoft reversed itself in the nick of time to head off defections to some of its competitors; CRM wares….