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The real trap of the Home Use Program is that it further locks an organization into the Software Assurance renewal cycle.
#MICROSOFT HOME USE PROGRAM TERMS LICENSE#
If a company decides not to continue their Software Assurance License with Microsoft then the rights to use existing HUP licenses or issue HUP licenses also stops. TRUE, but only notification to staff is needed If Software Assurance stops, all home use must stop. It’s not required that a company somehow check that the HUP Office has been uninstalled by the former staff member. It might be prudent for a company to include some discontinuation notice in the standard documents / procedures for departing staff. If former staff continues to use a HUP licensed Office that is an issue between Microsoft and the now illegal user of Office. The important point is that a company only has to inform departing staff to stop using the special copy of Office. Inform employees who leave the organization that they should stop using the HUP license of Office.
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Thanks to Microsoft reps for working through the long list of queries, we have quoted the reply from Microsoft verbatim (in italics). Here are some clarifications about the Home Use Program (HUP). We’ve compiled a list of questions for Microsoft, based on the emails we’ve received from our readers (which often included copies of refusal messages from managers). It seems there’s a lot of misunderstanding about the costs and responsibilities involved. Managers can be reluctant to make Microsoft Office available cheaply to staff. Over the years we’ve heard readers having trouble getting their bosses to let them access the Home Use Program. In our article Home Use Program or getting Microsoft Office for $15 we explained how many companies can let their staff buy Office 2019 for Windows or Mac for much less than retail. We clear up some of the misunderstandings about the MS Office Home Use Program (HUP), one of the cheapest ways to buy Microsoft Office.