[thelist] Student/teach software > upgrades

Pringle, Ron RPringle at aurora-il.org
Wed Jan 19 08:30:24 CST 2005


> I'm buying a Mac and need to get on it my current PC software 
> (Macromedia, Adobe, MS Office), which is going to cost a fortune. 
> Luckily I'm in education and qualify for student/teacher editions of 
> their packages, but have been told that there is no upgrade path to 
> those deals.  So, if for instance I buy Adobe Creative Studio as a 
> student and then want to upgrade to whatever the next version of that 
> is, I won't be able to; I'll have to buy an entire new, full 
> price, suite.
> 
> Regards
> 
> F

If you own your copies that you have installed on the PC, most companies
will let you "cross-grade" to newer or same versions on the Mac. I've done
this before and its pretty cost efficient.

Regards,

Ron Pringle
Web Developer
MIS, City of Aurora


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