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 Microsoft Charity Open Licensing Program
Microsoft always tries to do what it can for charity. That's why we established the Microsoft Charity Open Licensing program. It provides charitable organizations with Microsoft genuine software at discounts of up to 80%!
Program offering and structure
Similar to the Business offering of Microsoft Open License 6.0, the Charity Open Licensing Program is to maximize your IT investment:
For more details of Microsoft Open License 6.0, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/programs/open/.
Unique Charity Open License agreement
A rich blend of Microsoft applications, systems and servers are available in the Charity Open Licensing program at prices discounted up to 80%, including:
| Package | Estimated Retail Price (HK$) | Special Charity L&SA Price (HK$) | | Microsoft Office Standard 2007 | $3,226 | $671 | | Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 | $4,082 | $866 | | Upgrade to Windows Vista edition | $1,677 (Business edition upgrade) | $889 (Enterprise edition upgrade) | | Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 | $4,657 | $2,613 | | Visual Studio 2005 Professional with MSDN Pro | $9,313 | $5,569 | | Visual Studio 2005 Professional with MSDN Premium* | $19,484 | $12,620 |
For further information about Microsoft Charity Open Licensing program, please contact Microsoft at 2388-9600 or any one of our following resellers:
| Microware Computer Systems Ltd | 2565 4621 | | Jardine One Solution | 2880 3172 | | Kenfil Hong Kong Ltd. | 2864 2488 | | Hong Kong Council of Social Service | 2876 2420 |
Eligible Criteria for Microsoft Charity Open Licensing Program
The eligibility of Microsoft Charity Open Licensing Program application is as follows:
Local charitable organizations are eligible based on the following charity definition underwritten in the Section 88 of Inland Revenue Ordinance
"Charitable Organization" means any entity operated exclusively for charitable, scientific, literary, or educational purposes, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual, other than:
- Any entity that receives more than one third of its income from any one person or entity
- Any entity that is substantially engaged in lobbying, political campaigns or other activities designed to influence legislation
- Any hospital, health care system or research laboratory
- Any entity that is eligible to participate in the Microsoft Academic Open License program as an "eligible education customer" as that term is defined in the Microsoft Academic Open License Agreement in effect for your region at the time your order was placed
*Note:
- Visual Studio Professional with MSDN Premium offers ALL Microsoft software for testing, development, implementation, and evaluation purposes. Therefore, they do not have to purchase licenses separately which are much more expensive and difficult to manage.
- All software comes with Software Assurance (SA) so customers can always be up-to-date.
- All software are fully functional. Since they are NOT trial, they have no time bomb and have no restrictions on maximum number of users.
- A free copy of 2007 Microsoft Office system for their everyday use.
- 4 technical support calls for FREE (regular price of USD249 per call)
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