Comments on: eXpresso and Microsoft Office Web Components http://blog.expressocorp.com/2008/01/28/expresso-and-microsoft-office-web-components/ The official blog of eXpresso Corp - The best way to share Excel® spreadsheets. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:16 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Amber Newman http://blog.expressocorp.com/2008/01/28/expresso-and-microsoft-office-web-components/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Amber Newman Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:37:40 +0000 http://blog.expressocorp.com/2008/01/28/expresso-and-microsoft-office-web-components/#comment-59 Dear Jim, I tried to reply to your email address, but saddly it bounced. If you want to discuss this further, please drop me a line. I'm happy to tell you more about our meetings with various Microsoft managers involved in OWC. You can email me at anewman@expressocorp.com. Anyway, thanks for reading our Blog. Amber Dear Jim,

I tried to reply to your email address, but saddly it bounced. If you want to discuss this further, please drop me a line. I’m happy to tell you more about our meetings with various Microsoft managers involved in OWC. You can email me at anewman@expressocorp.com. Anyway, thanks for reading our Blog.

Amber

]]> By: jim http://blog.expressocorp.com/2008/01/28/expresso-and-microsoft-office-web-components/comment-page-1/#comment-58 jim Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:00:14 +0000 http://blog.expressocorp.com/2008/01/28/expresso-and-microsoft-office-web-components/#comment-58 You have gotten your facts wrong...While any user can download the OWC component itself (without having to validate that their instance of Office is a legal one), companies such as Expresso cannot serve web pages that run on OWC which is where you are violating the licensing terms. Microsoft specifically forbids allowing running the web server for OWC that are accessible to anyone...these web pages can only be served for internal networks... Take a look at the licensing terms here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/243006 Can any Web server run the Office Web Components? No. Only Web servers hosting Web pages viewable on an internal network (that is, an intranet Web server) can run the Office Web Components. You have gotten your facts wrong…While any user can download the OWC component itself (without having to validate that their instance of Office is a legal one), companies such as Expresso cannot serve web pages that run on OWC which is where you are violating the licensing terms. Microsoft specifically forbids allowing running the web server for OWC that are accessible to anyone…these web pages can only be served for internal networks…
Take a look at the licensing terms here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/243006
Can any Web server run the Office Web Components?

No. Only Web servers hosting Web pages viewable on an internal network (that is, an intranet Web server) can run the Office Web Components.

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