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The Office 2007 Professional trial that is available for download from Microsoft is about 500MB, but in stores, Office 2007 comes in DVDs no CDs, so I assume it is more than 700MB.
The downloaded version is in fact a full download and all you need to do is purchase a product key and register it.
So what are the differences between the online version and the DVD version, how come its so small in size? Any missing features?
Maybe there are extra programs, movies etc on the dvd that you don't get if you download the trial.
there's probably more than one version. For example office 2000 had a standard and a professional version. I have The Office 2007 DVD, and it comes with Office 2007 Enterprise on it, but it comes with three other programs as separate installs: Office 2007 Visio, Office 2007 Project, and Expression Web.
The compression may also be different. If it is using a reasonably good compression such as .rar (which i have seen microsoft do for iso's) then it can reduce a 700MB iso from a cd to around 500MB. It may be that the version on the DVD is something like 720MB and so just over the limit for the CD?
Double check. Often what's available for downloads is an ISO image, which is a compress DVD image file. Before it can be used, it needs to be extracted and copied to a DVD using a DVD burner & an app of some kind that can read ISO images. Another alternative is to get a program that will allow you to mount to ISO images as if there were actually a DVD drive (this is the method I use and it saves me a bundle on DVDs).
-tg
the full iso i have is 1.2 gb in iso format.