Office 2007 OEM licence

sativa · 5 Jan 2007 at 20:53

I note that Office 2007 is available from OcUK at a great price but all versions appear to be OEM.

Moral issues aside, am I going to come into any difficulties 'activating' office 2007 on a subsequent build (including, for the sake of argument, a motherboard upgrade).

The OcUK price is fantastic but I dont want to have to re-purchase the software again in 6 months when I upgrade my system.

testa12 · 5 Jan 2007 at 20:54

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=195300038

sativa · 5 Jan 2007 at 21:04

thank you

Burnsy2023 · 5 Jan 2007 at 21:14

testa12 said:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=195300038

Thats for VLA versions of Office only and not OEM. Yes, the similar restrictions apply from Windows.

Burnsy

testa12 · 5 Jan 2007 at 21:24

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826526/

http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/prodinfo/activation.mspx

Seems unclear, i guess they dont want tell everyone what happens IF you install it on more than 1 PC, could you just phone them up like before or not?

sativa · 5 Jan 2007 at 22:03

lol, just ordered it now. tsk.

testa12 · 5 Jan 2007 at 22:23

Dont worry bud, the documentation on this is non existant. All pointers say you will phone up India and tell them u formatted your PC. Nothing special about that, huh?

Microsoft aren't all that bad..... really