Activating 2 office's on the same PC at the same time

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sercan bozkurt

i've a new laptop with vista and i'm planning to use win7 on it while keeping
vista too. can i activate 2 office installations at the same time on the same
pc?
 
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Alias

sercan said:
i've a new laptop with vista and i'm planning to use win7 on it while keeping
vista too. can i activate 2 office installations at the same time on the same
pc?
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Only if you want to be in violation of the EULA. MS wants you to pay for
a license for each device (two operating systems would mean two devices
to them) Office is installed on which the exception of Home and Student
which allows three installs and most others that allow one desktop and
one laptop that cannot be used simultaneously.

An alternative to this very restrictive -- and probably illegal --
licensing practice is Open Office that allows you to install it on as
many devices as you like and it's free. http://www.openoffice.org/

Alias
 
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Tony Luxton

Would that include my situation?

My machine has Windows XP Home, but I'm studying for the Microsoft MCDST
exam, and I have installed the time-limited training version of XP Pro on a
separate partition (it's just for training and only lasts 3 months). What if
I install Office 2007 H&S on that as well as the installation I already use
(it's just for training, more for the OS than anything else)?

Regards Tony.
 
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Alias

Tony said:
Would that include my situation?

My machine has Windows XP Home, but I'm studying for the Microsoft MCDST
exam, and I have installed the time-limited training version of XP Pro on a
separate partition (it's just for training and only lasts 3 months). What if
I install Office 2007 H&S on that as well as the installation I already use
(it's just for training, more for the OS than anything else)?

Regards Tony.
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I believe H&S allows three installs. Read the EULA to be sure. In the
case above, it would be two installs.

Alias
 
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