Does Office 2007 Home/Student edition work with the BI features?

I am a software developer and looking at a new home machine for .NET
development. I don't need Outlook, but I do want to play around with some of
the BI features with SQL Server (I have SQL Server 2005 Developer edition).
I just want to make sure that Office 2007 Home edition is fully functional,
so for example Excel can interact with a SQL database if I do some Analysis
Services work. It would really suck if I had to spend more money on Small
Business or Professional edition to be able to test and develop BI solutions.

I would not be using it for commercial purposes, but for development and
testing. Is it a fully functional version of Office, or did Microsoft
cripple it in some regards?

Fully functional, doesnt contain Outlook, supplied for none commercial use

"wayne62682" <wayne62682@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:89C80E12-0A53-46A9-9AE7-999C5C676419@microsoft.com...
>I am a software developer and looking at a new home machine for .NET
> development. I don't need Outlook, but I do want to play around with some
> of
> the BI features with SQL Server (I have SQL Server 2005 Developer
> edition).
> I just want to make sure that Office 2007 Home edition is fully
> functional,
> so for example Excel can interact with a SQL database if I do some
> Analysis
> Services work. It would really suck if I had to spend more money on Small
> Business or Professional edition to be able to test and develop BI
> solutions.
>
> I would not be using it for commercial purposes, but for development and
> testing. Is it a fully functional version of Office, or did Microsoft
> cripple it in some regards?

Right, aware of those restrictions. Non-commercial use doesn't apply since
I'm not using it commercially, just to develop against. Sounds like it will
suit my needs then. Thanks for the reply!

"DL" wrote:

> Fully functional, doesnt contain Outlook, supplied for none commercial use
>
> "wayne62682" <wayne62682@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:89C80E12-0A53-46A9-9AE7-999C5C676419@microsoft.com...
> >I am a software developer and looking at a new home machine for .NET
> > development. I don't need Outlook, but I do want to play around with some
> > of
> > the BI features with SQL Server (I have SQL Server 2005 Developer
> > edition).
> > I just want to make sure that Office 2007 Home edition is fully
> > functional,
> > so for example Excel can interact with a SQL database if I do some
> > Analysis
> > Services work. It would really suck if I had to spend more money on Small
> > Business or Professional edition to be able to test and develop BI
> > solutions.
> >
> > I would not be using it for commercial purposes, but for development and
> > testing. Is it a fully functional version of Office, or did Microsoft
> > cripple it in some regards?
>
>
>