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It is a great deal when you can take advantage of it, but ...
As kevsor says, variations of the HUP have been around for a long time. I first ran into it when my office was upgrading to Office 97. People who had taken advantage of the program in the previous version were suddenly SOL. The HUP was no longer valid for Office 97 and officially, since the company site license had been upgraded the home users were no longer licensed and if they wanted to continue running Office at home they were supposed to buy a full version. In other words, at that point in time it became a "bait and switch".
Note: if you ever leave the company according to MS rules you will no longer be allowed to run that HUP copy, you too will have to buy your own full license. But, till then it is a great deal.
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