OEM...The return

M

Miss Mel

Can anyone qualify the following for me?

1. Office OEM may be purchased with a non-peripheral hardware item
2. Must live an die with the machine that it's installed on and is not
transferable between PC's/users

These are questions that MS have answered for me directly, but there is
still a confusion surrounding them.
 
O

Opinicus

2. Must live an die with the machine that it's installed
on and is not
transferable between PC's/users
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The first part of this is correct. I question the second
however. The OEM version is tied to the machine, not to the
owner of the machine.
 
B

Beth Melton

For certain OEM licenses, such as for Windows, an OEM license
purchased with hardware is okay. But for Office it can only come from
an OEM/System Builder and must be preinstalled on a new PC. If you are
building your own PC then you can become a System Builder but for that
you need a System Builder Pack for Microsoft OEM software and it must
be acquired through a Microsoft OEM distributor.

Item 2 its correct. An OEM license is non-transferable.


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O

Opinicus

Beth Melton said:
Item 2 its correct. An OEM license is non-transferable.
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Just to clarify: We're talking about an Office OEM license.

Does this mean that I can't sell a machine that has an OEM
installation of Office on it to somebody else? That
certainly sounds rather odd. What's the justification for
this?
 
J

JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]

If you sell someone your computer that had an OEM version of Office
pre-installed, then you must include the Office disks.
 
O

Opinicus

JoAnn Paules said:
If you sell someone your computer that had an OEM version
of Office pre-installed, then you must include the Office
disks.
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Which is what I thought to be true but

So the question is "What does non-transferable mean" in this
context?
 
P

Paul Ballou

So the question is "What does non-transferable mean" in this context?
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With OEM software the license would not be transferable to another computer,
it stays tied to the machine it originally came preinstalled or as part of
the OEM package.
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B

Beth Melton

Paul Ballou said:
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With OEM software the license would not be transferable to another
computer, it stays tied to the machine it originally came
preinstalled or as part of the OEM package.
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Yes. That's what I meant by non-transferable. I did read your reply
after mine and thought the way I worded it may have been confusing but
didn't have the time to add a quick post (clients don't wait!) so
thanks for asking for clarification. :)

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