Licensing Issues

[isight]

I am trying to stay legal!

I have just upgraded to Win 7 (clean install) and am reinstalling Office 2003.

To complicate matters, the full version of Office (pro) 2003 I have has a
HUP license which I am no longer entitled to use. I have an upgrade version
of Office (Small Business) 2003 which was installed on a machine I no longer
have and which came with Office XP pre-installed (no disks). Effectively,
what I want to do is transfer the Small Business licensed software onto my
Windows 7 machine... but the small business installer will not let me install
over Professional because it is looking for earlier versions of office (not
2003) to trigger the upgrade install.

How do I keep myself legal, without having to upgrade to Office 2007?

Thanks

Alison

 

[LVTravel]

I am trying to stay legal!

I have just upgraded to Win 7 (clean install) and am reinstalling Office
2003.

To complicate matters, the full version of Office (pro) 2003 I have has a
HUP license which I am no longer entitled to use. I have an upgrade
version
of Office (Small Business) 2003 which was installed on a machine I no
longer
have and which came with Office XP pre-installed (no disks). Effectively,
what I want to do is transfer the Small Business licensed software onto my
Windows 7 machine... but the small business installer will not let me
install
over Professional because it is looking for earlier versions of office
(not
2003) to trigger the upgrade install.

How do I keep myself legal, without having to upgrade to Office 2007?

Thanks

Alison

You need to purchase a legal 2003 upgrade qualifying program to use the
upgrade disk to install Office 2003 upgrade. The list is fairly small of
what products do allow an upgrade. See:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/315995 for those products that
will qualify for the upgrade. Note that there is one error in this KB
article. Apparently it does list all Office XP suites as qualifying but XP
Student and Teacher does not qualify.

 

[isight]

Thanks very much for the advice LVTravel. I really appreciate the trouble you
went to in advising me.

I'm really fed up with this situation: I had a perfectly legal configuration
when I was running Vista but now I've upgraded to 7, I cannot make my office
suite legal again without making an additional purchase.

I'm going to try Open Office!

But... sincerely... thanks again for your help

 

[LVTravel]

Thanks very much for the advice LVTravel. I really appreciate the trouble
you
went to in advising me.

I'm really fed up with this situation: I had a perfectly legal
configuration
when I was running Vista but now I've upgraded to 7, I cannot make my
office
suite legal again without making an additional purchase.

I'm going to try Open Office!

But... sincerely... thanks again for your help

Thanks for posting back. Open Office works well but if you want to ensure
compatibility with MS Office programs in the future you need to set the
defaults for the main programs to save as .doc, .xls and .ppt files.

To do that start Open Office Writer then click Tools, Options, the + beside
Load/Save, General and down in the Document type click Text document in the
drop down box. In the Always save as box click the drop down and select
Word 97/2000/XP and then click the Document type dropdown and do the same
for Presentation and select Powerpoint 97/2000/XP, then do the same for
Spreadsheet. Click OK. Now whenever you save a document, spreadsheet or
powerpoint type file it will be easily readable by Office applications.