Many users think that because MS has a version for small business that they also have a version for a church, charity, nonprofit, etc. The fact is that this is not true. However MS does have Microsoft office for non profit at a different price. So we see that semantics are involved because it looks like it is a special product when it really is a special price. The Microsoft Office small business package is the culprit for causing this confusion.

This is not the first time that MS has caused this type of confusion. Several years ago they named their operating system XP Home and XP Pro and then named their package Office XP. Of course, "Pro" has also been used to describe programs in the past like the current office 2010 professional plus or "Pro Plus". When you combine that with the XP Pro and see that at the same time there was an operating system and an office version that were both XP, you can find the path of confusion. As we now see, Microsoft office non profit is no different.

There are so many websites that discuss and debate the issue and we can assure you that MS does not make an office version for nonprofits. You can find that the current offering does work well for these types of organizations because most of them do function at headquarters like a business and therefore need the software that can run the organization.