Do I need to buy Office 2007 twice to run it on my laptop and desk

  • Thread starter Kelly Bellefleur
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Kelly Bellefleur

Hello,
I would like to run MS Office Standard 2007 on my laptop and desktop, does
this mean I need to purchase two retail copies? My daughter also has a
desktop in her room would that require a third copy, it starts getting pretty
expensive.
Thanks very much,
Kelly
 
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Bob Buckland ?:-\)

Hi Kelly,

The MS Office Home & Student Edition (2007) allows for 3 machine installs within a household. That edition includes Word, Excel,
Powerpoint and OneNote.

MS Office Standard Edition 2007 retail package allows for 2 machine installs. It includes Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook)
http://office.microsoft.com/suites

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Hello,
I would like to run MS Office Standard 2007 on my laptop and desktop, does
this mean I need to purchase two retail copies? My daughter also has a
desktop in her room would that require a third copy, it starts getting pretty
expensive.
Thanks very much,
Kelly>>
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Bob Buckland ?:)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
 
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Val

The EULA for Office Standard 2007 does not seem to be available online (that
I can find), but the one for Word 2007 is
http://tinyurl.com/yoc8y2
It still allows installation on a desktop and a portable device, for use by
the licensee - so you should be ok for your two machines. Your daughter
will need a separate license.

Do you in fact need Standard, or will the Home and Student version work,
the difference being the swapping OneNote for Outlook. If the EULA for this
version reads the same as the 2003 Student and Teacher, you can install on
up to three devices in your household for use by any members of the
household.

Val
 
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JoAnn Paules [MVP]

Full retail versions allow the following:

2. INSTALLATION AND USE RIGHTS. Before you use the software under a
license, you must assign that license to one device. That device is the
“licensed device.” A hardware partition or blade is considered to be a
separate device.
a. Licensed Device. You may install and use one copy of the software on the
licensed device.
b. Portable Device. You may install another copy on a portable device for
use by the single primary user of the licensed device.

The key phrase is *single primary user*. You can't load it on Susie's
desktop and Johnny's laptop.

Apparently, this is not what the MSLT says for Home and Student.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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