That is what I thought, as I had picked up VB6 as an academic version back in the day and it was full featured and I assumed mappoint would be the same. Oddly enough, my software would not work with it (it subsiquently worked when he bought a retail copy), so perhaps he bought a fraudulent copy marked as academic?

Anyway, my issue is solved, as he is now running full retail and it is working with my VB6 apps that reference MapPoint Control 13.0, so I am posting this just as an FYI.