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>Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 13:12:56 -0600
>From: Michael Bush <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: RE: #5164.7Proofing Tools--Where are they? (!)
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David Pankratz wrote:
> supposedly we can load the MS "Proofing Tools"
> (foreign language spell checkers and grammar
> checkers, an MS product) onto individual
> machines for a licensing fee of around $13.00
> per machine.

Your difficulty really is a frustrating one.  You say "supposedly."  Is this
"Proofing Tools" provision expressly mentioned in your agreement?  If so,
who negotiated and signed the agreement with Microsoft?

In any case, I find it curious that you would be able to do this with
Microsoft since it seems Alki would lose out royally.  I am interested in
the same issue, so I will check out our license here on campus.

Cheers,

Mike
Michael Bush
Associate Professor of French and
Instructional Psychology and Technology
http://moliere.byu.edu/digital/

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>Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 16:01:13 -0500
>From: "David Pankratz" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Proofing Tools--Where are they?

Our university has a "select agreement" with Microsoft, and supposedly
we can load the MS "Proofing Tools" (foreign language spell checkers
and grammar checkers, an MS product) onto individual machines for a
licensing fee of around $13.00 per machine. The trick is, nobody at MS
can tell us where to get the product, at least the version that will
run with MS Word 97.
There is a company called Alki that sells them individually, but when
you ask about "select agreements" and such, they refer you back
to--you guessed it, MS. Phone calls have gone back and forth from us
to MS for months, but MS is simply unable to deliver any information.
Does anybody have a clue on how to unravel this puzzle--it really is
absurd!

David Pankratz
Loyola University Chicago