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Subject:RE: Microsoft Home Use Program. From:Fred Ridder <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com> To:Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:19:57 -0500
Gene Kim-Eng wrote (in part):
> You don't "own" the disk, and if you leave the company
> or the company doesn't maintain its MS site license, your
> license to use the software is supposed to become invalid.
> I say "supposed to," because I don't think any company I've
> ever worked for has bothered to notify MS that an HUP
> user has left the company.
But some companies (like my last employer) do ask each
employee to destroy the MS Office home use CD as one
item on their standard exit interview checklist.
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