Office 07 Licensing?

manic111 · 4 Jul 2009 at 11:45

I'm about to say bye-bye to Vista and install the Windows 7 RC. However, I re-install my OS every six months, and obviously with that comes a re-install of Office etc. Last time I re-installed, it said that my copy of Office was being used on too many PCs (only actually being used on mine, but assume that I had installed it more times than the license would allow). I had to ring Microsoft and they, very helpfully, re-activated my key.

My question is: will I have to do this again when I install Office on Windows 7? Don't want to risk peeing Microsoft off!

Aod · 4 Jul 2009 at 12:56

your Office 07 licence can be transferred from PC to PC indefinitely. additionally, Office 07 can be installed on both a desktop and a mobile PC (laptop, netbook etc...) at the same time on the same license

manic111 · 4 Jul 2009 at 12:57

Aod said:
your Office 07 licence can be transferred from PC to PC indefinitely. additionally, Office 07 can be installed on both a desktop and a mobile PC (laptop, netbook etc...) at the same time on the same license

Didn't know that, shame I'm running Linux on my lappy and nobody's got it working easily via Wine yet

But seriously, I had to phone MS last time I installed it, surely if it can be transferred indefinately I wouldn't have had to do this?

Burnsy2023 · 4 Jul 2009 at 13:04

Aod said:
your Office 07 licence can be transferred from PC to PC indefinitely. additionally, Office 07 can be installed on both a desktop and a mobile PC (laptop, netbook etc...) at the same time on the same license

That's true for some of the Office licences but not all. Check your EULA.

madman045 · 4 Jul 2009 at 13:15

OEM is non transferable, if you wanted the ability to transfer it to another pc, you would need to buy a retail boxed copy

manic111 · 4 Jul 2009 at 13:18

Burnsy: The EULA suggests that I can transfer the software to another device (which I assume this counts as?) once every 90 days, so I would be within my rights to do this then?

Madman: It's a retail version.

Burnsy2023 · 4 Jul 2009 at 13:29

manic111 said:
Burnsy: The EULA suggests that I can transfer the software to another device (which I assume this counts as?) once every 90 days, so I would be within my rights to do this then?

To do what exactly?

manic111 · 4 Jul 2009 at 14:35

To uninstall Vista (and therefore the Office install which is on Vista), and re-install Office on my new Windows 7 install.

Burnsy2023 · 4 Jul 2009 at 15:23

Yes, that's fine.

manic111 · 4 Jul 2009 at 15:28

Cool cool, cheers Burnsy; you seem to know all things Microsoft so I'll take you at your word

Is the licensing done by computer (ie when MS detect you installing it on more than one PC they flag it), or by how many times it's installed/re-installed, whether it's on the same PC or not?

Burnsy2023 · 4 Jul 2009 at 15:36

manic111 said:
Is the licensing done by computer (ie when MS detect you installing it on more than one PC they flag it), or by how many times it's installed/re-installed, whether it's on the same PC or not?

It's somehwat less sophistcated than that. Either way, just phone the activation line if it doesn't work automatically.

manic111 · 4 Jul 2009 at 15:42

OK will do, thanks for your help! They won't mind that I phoned them last time I re-installed Office as well will they? Had a hard drive failure in January, and tried to re-install it then and needed to give them a buzz.