"It used to be that you were not allowed to use Office from Bizspark for tasks other than development for Office" The BizSpark EULA has interesting wording whi

"It used to be that you were not allowed to use Office from Bizspark for tasks other than development for Office" The BizSpark EULA has interesting wording which is a bit less extreme than what you are stating (this may have changed in the past few years; i'm pulling from July 2012 EULA): "You may only install and use copies of the following Desktop Application and Desktop Operating System portions of the Program Software solely to design, develop, test and demonstrate your programs. [list includes the office suites]" This lets you use Office in contexts other than pure Office development. As an example, for an analytics startup you can run your business in Excel to test against your platform. I use Excel in this way (it's easy to throw up an excel baseline for lots of tasks and compare it to my code).