MS Office 2007: Online download vs DVD

[freeze_sr]

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?

[Nightwalker83]

Maybe there are extra programs, movies etc on the dvd that you don't get if you download the trial.

[Lord Orwell]

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.

[03myersd]

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?

[techgnome]

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

[Lord Orwell]

the full iso i have is 1.2 gb in iso format.