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office 2007 oem: it really doesn’t exist… you need an opk (OEM preinstallation kit) first.

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A customer wants me to quote on a high-end system.

She wants (amongst other things) office 2007 professional. I look at the prices from various suppliers, and decide that the OEM price is significantly lower than the retail pack. So I use that price to generate the final quote.

So she decides to buy the system from me, and as I look into getting office OEM, I realise its not like the windows XP OEM.

Either I buy the full retail pack, or I buy the OEM pack (which is just a serial number… I also need to purchase an OPK (oem pre-installation kit)).

But my supplier doesn’t have any OPKs.

I shop around and find a huge difference in OPK prices (from $99 to $350 :-O )

Ok, I feel ripped off (thanks microsoft!), and my profit margin has dropped, but luckily, its still a profit.

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office 2007 oem: it really doesn’t exist… you need an opk (OEM preinstallation kit) first. — 2 Comments

  2. Thats what I thought.

    The kit itself has confusing, contradictory, and just plain wrong (or out of date) information.

    Eg: A note inside the pack says the image in the pack is inactive, and end users will need a key specific to the image, in order to activate it…

    Now thats a scary statement…

    But docs on the CD don’t say anything like that… just that you can temporarily activate the full functionality by running a script (to test the functionality), but you then need to run a “restore to preactivation” script to get it back to a non-activated state.

    Well, the temp activation doesn’t work (it just activates a “25 uses” mode.

    But it accepted the licence code, and activated without a problem.

    I think its just a case of the doco not keeping up with the current realities.

    And there is little information on which CDs to use in which situation…

    The pack has 4 CDs.

    – A 2 disk pack, (disk 1 has a hologram label, disk 2 doesnt), which says Office basic, small business, professional

    – A hologram labelled disk that says home and student.

    – A plain label disk that says office OEM preinstalation kit (which seems to have some outdated documentation and scripts)

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