MICROSOFT OFFICE PROFESSIONAL HYBRID 2007

I want to know what "Microsoft Office Professional Hybrid 2007" is. Is it
part of Microsoft Office Professional 2007? or Is it another product I can
install separated? Where can I find information about it?

Thank you very much for your help.

Where did you see that?

Microsoft Office Professional Hybrid" on Google (with quotes) fetches up
651 hits, some of which are in the microsoft.com domain. For example:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928516

I Googled also, and came up with many hits, including that MS KB, none of
which would tell me what the "hybrid" actually is ;-)

I could be really really wrong about this, but for some reason I was
thinking that Office 2007 Small Business Edition automatically installs
with a trial version of Office 2007 Professional Edition and is listed
in add/remove as Office 2007 Professional Hybrid.

Just a guess here, but I wonder if it isn't really the trial version.

I was curious where the OP found it more than what it was.

That didn't come out right... the Office 2007 Small Business Edition
setup program automatically installs a trial version of Office 2007
Professional Edition, and I think the combo is listed in add/remove as
Office 2007 Professional Hybrid.

All of the references I've found are in non-English places. I wonder if it
isn't something that's not available in the US/Canada.

I Googled it and got a bunch of hits, not curious enough to follow up
on any of them though....

I did but nothing in English.

I asked a Microsoft contact about this, as I also couldn't find anything to
explain what it is. Here's what I found out:

Office Professional Hybrid 2007 is an OEM medialess sku. Basically, the OEM
(Original Equipment Manufacturer -- the computer manufacturer, for all
intents and purposes) can make one drive image with the Hybrid sku, and the
customer would activate one of these 4 Office options, depending on which
key they are given/purchase:

1. Office Basic + Office Pro 60 day trial. (The Pro features and apps go
into reduced functionality mode after 60 days. But the Office Basic apps /
features would continue to work.)

2. Office Small Business Edition + Office Pro 60 day trial. (Same as
above -- the Pro features/apps go into reduced functionality after 60 days,
but the SBE apps/features continue to work.)

3. Office Pro (the full installed Office Pro)

4. Office Pro 60 day trial.

So the "Office Professional Hybrid" is not something that an individual
would have access to.

Cool, did they differentiate between the 0031 and the 0035 codes?

Oh, man. I wasn't looking at the KB article at the time, so I completely
forgot about those and didn't ask! I'll see if I can find anything out about
that.

I'm impressed, GnO. You were definitely on the right track there!

[jrhogan590]

I just started to run excel 2007 and windows installer started to install Microsoft Office Hybrid 2007 and then Excel started