Office license and activation?

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

For any 'official' word on the License Agreement
probably best to have them contact the MS licensing
folks directly by phone.

=====

Correct as I stated above but that's not the question. The question
is: "Is this legal according to the EULA?" That's the question and the
person involved doesn't care to violate the EULA regardless of whether
it activates properly, he's concerned as to the "letter of the
agreement".

Personally, I'm with you, if it activates it's OK but he's not as
casual about it as I am...... ;-) >>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

For any 'official' word on the License Agreement
probably best to have them contact the MS licensing
folks directly by phone.

=====

Correct as I stated above but that's not the question. The question
is: "Is this legal according to the EULA?" That's the question and the
person involved doesn't care to violate the EULA regardless of whether
it activates properly, he's concerned as to the "letter of the
agreement".

Personally, I'm with you, if it activates it's OK but he's not as
casual about it as I am...... ;-) >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

For any 'official' word on the License Agreement
probably best to have them contact the MS licensing
folks directly by phone.

=====

Correct as I stated above but that's not the question. The question
is: "Is this legal according to the EULA?" That's the question and the
person involved doesn't care to violate the EULA regardless of whether
it activates properly, he's concerned as to the "letter of the
agreement".

Personally, I'm with you, if it activates it's OK but he's not as
casual about it as I am...... ;-) >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

For any 'official' word on the License Agreement
probably best to have them contact the MS licensing
folks directly by phone.

=====

Correct as I stated above but that's not the question. The question
is: "Is this legal according to the EULA?" That's the question and the
person involved doesn't care to violate the EULA regardless of whether
it activates properly, he's concerned as to the "letter of the
agreement".

Personally, I'm with you, if it activates it's OK but he's not as
casual about it as I am...... ;-) >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

For any 'official' word on the License Agreement
probably best to have them contact the MS licensing
folks directly by phone.

=====

Correct as I stated above but that's not the question. The question
is: "Is this legal according to the EULA?" That's the question and the
person involved doesn't care to violate the EULA regardless of whether
it activates properly, he's concerned as to the "letter of the
agreement".

Personally, I'm with you, if it activates it's OK but he's not as
casual about it as I am...... ;-) >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

For any 'official' word on the License Agreement
probably best to have them contact the MS licensing
folks directly by phone.

=====

Correct as I stated above but that's not the question. The question
is: "Is this legal according to the EULA?" That's the question and the
person involved doesn't care to violate the EULA regardless of whether
it activates properly, he's concerned as to the "letter of the
agreement".

Personally, I'm with you, if it activates it's OK but he's not as
casual about it as I am...... ;-) >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

For any 'official' word on the License Agreement
probably best to have them contact the MS licensing
folks directly by phone.

=====

Correct as I stated above but that's not the question. The question
is: "Is this legal according to the EULA?" That's the question and the
person involved doesn't care to violate the EULA regardless of whether
it activates properly, he's concerned as to the "letter of the
agreement".

Personally, I'm with you, if it activates it's OK but he's not as
casual about it as I am...... ;-) >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

For any 'official' word on the License Agreement
probably best to have them contact the MS licensing
folks directly by phone.

=====

Correct as I stated above but that's not the question. The question
is: "Is this legal according to the EULA?" That's the question and the
person involved doesn't care to violate the EULA regardless of whether
it activates properly, he's concerned as to the "letter of the
agreement".

Personally, I'm with you, if it activates it's OK but he's not as
casual about it as I am...... ;-) >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[XS11E]

"Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful
Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in

For any 'official' word on the License Agreement probably best to
have them contact the MS licensing folks directly by phone.

Again, I was interested in hearing opinions here.

BTW, any official word on the EULA can come only from a court since
it's a legal agreement. Microsoft can say what they think it means,
users can say what they think it means and a court will say what it
DOES mean.

So far as I know, Microsoft has chosen not to test it in court. As a
matter of fact, I believe activation is one means of enforcing the EULA
w/o going through legal proceedings and that's why I suspect that the
activation working correctly should mean that Office installed in two
different operating systems on two different partitions of the same PC
does NOT break the EULA.

And I'm still waiting for opinions from MSFT people, MVPs and typical
users. Any attorneys here, please chip in.

Thank you

 

[XS11E]

"Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful
Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in

For any 'official' word on the License Agreement probably best to
have them contact the MS licensing folks directly by phone.

Again, I was interested in hearing opinions here.

BTW, any official word on the EULA can come only from a court since
it's a legal agreement. Microsoft can say what they think it means,
users can say what they think it means and a court will say what it
DOES mean.

So far as I know, Microsoft has chosen not to test it in court. As a
matter of fact, I believe activation is one means of enforcing the EULA
w/o going through legal proceedings and that's why I suspect that the
activation working correctly should mean that Office installed in two
different operating systems on two different partitions of the same PC
does NOT break the EULA.

And I'm still waiting for opinions from MSFT people, MVPs and typical
users. Any attorneys here, please chip in.

Thank you

 

[XS11E]

"Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful
Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in

For any 'official' word on the License Agreement probably best to
have them contact the MS licensing folks directly by phone.

Again, I was interested in hearing opinions here.

BTW, any official word on the EULA can come only from a court since
it's a legal agreement. Microsoft can say what they think it means,
users can say what they think it means and a court will say what it
DOES mean.

So far as I know, Microsoft has chosen not to test it in court. As a
matter of fact, I believe activation is one means of enforcing the EULA
w/o going through legal proceedings and that's why I suspect that the
activation working correctly should mean that Office installed in two
different operating systems on two different partitions of the same PC
does NOT break the EULA.

And I'm still waiting for opinions from MSFT people, MVPs and typical
users. Any attorneys here, please chip in.

Thank you

 

[XS11E]

"Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful
Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in

For any 'official' word on the License Agreement probably best to
have them contact the MS licensing folks directly by phone.

Again, I was interested in hearing opinions here.

BTW, any official word on the EULA can come only from a court since
it's a legal agreement. Microsoft can say what they think it means,
users can say what they think it means and a court will say what it
DOES mean.

So far as I know, Microsoft has chosen not to test it in court. As a
matter of fact, I believe activation is one means of enforcing the EULA
w/o going through legal proceedings and that's why I suspect that the
activation working correctly should mean that Office installed in two
different operating systems on two different partitions of the same PC
does NOT break the EULA.

And I'm still waiting for opinions from MSFT people, MVPs and typical
users. Any attorneys here, please chip in.

Thank you

 

[XS11E]

"Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful
Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in

For any 'official' word on the License Agreement probably best to
have them contact the MS licensing folks directly by phone.

Again, I was interested in hearing opinions here.

BTW, any official word on the EULA can come only from a court since
it's a legal agreement. Microsoft can say what they think it means,
users can say what they think it means and a court will say what it
DOES mean.

So far as I know, Microsoft has chosen not to test it in court. As a
matter of fact, I believe activation is one means of enforcing the EULA
w/o going through legal proceedings and that's why I suspect that the
activation working correctly should mean that Office installed in two
different operating systems on two different partitions of the same PC
does NOT break the EULA.

And I'm still waiting for opinions from MSFT people, MVPs and typical
users. Any attorneys here, please chip in.

Thank you

 

[XS11E]

"Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful
Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in

For any 'official' word on the License Agreement probably best to
have them contact the MS licensing folks directly by phone.

Again, I was interested in hearing opinions here.

BTW, any official word on the EULA can come only from a court since
it's a legal agreement. Microsoft can say what they think it means,
users can say what they think it means and a court will say what it
DOES mean.

So far as I know, Microsoft has chosen not to test it in court. As a
matter of fact, I believe activation is one means of enforcing the EULA
w/o going through legal proceedings and that's why I suspect that the
activation working correctly should mean that Office installed in two
different operating systems on two different partitions of the same PC
does NOT break the EULA.

And I'm still waiting for opinions from MSFT people, MVPs and typical
users. Any attorneys here, please chip in.

Thank you

 

[XS11E]

"Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful
Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in

For any 'official' word on the License Agreement probably best to
have them contact the MS licensing folks directly by phone.

Again, I was interested in hearing opinions here.

BTW, any official word on the EULA can come only from a court since
it's a legal agreement. Microsoft can say what they think it means,
users can say what they think it means and a court will say what it
DOES mean.

So far as I know, Microsoft has chosen not to test it in court. As a
matter of fact, I believe activation is one means of enforcing the EULA
w/o going through legal proceedings and that's why I suspect that the
activation working correctly should mean that Office installed in two
different operating systems on two different partitions of the same PC
does NOT break the EULA.

And I'm still waiting for opinions from MSFT people, MVPs and typical
users. Any attorneys here, please chip in.

Thank you

 

[XS11E]

"Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful
Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in

For any 'official' word on the License Agreement probably best to
have them contact the MS licensing folks directly by phone.

Again, I was interested in hearing opinions here.

BTW, any official word on the EULA can come only from a court since
it's a legal agreement. Microsoft can say what they think it means,
users can say what they think it means and a court will say what it
DOES mean.

So far as I know, Microsoft has chosen not to test it in court. As a
matter of fact, I believe activation is one means of enforcing the EULA
w/o going through legal proceedings and that's why I suspect that the
activation working correctly should mean that Office installed in two
different operating systems on two different partitions of the same PC
does NOT break the EULA.

And I'm still waiting for opinions from MSFT people, MVPs and typical
users. Any attorneys here, please chip in.

Thank you

 

[XS11E]

"Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful
Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote in

For any 'official' word on the License Agreement probably best to
have them contact the MS licensing folks directly by phone.

Again, I was interested in hearing opinions here.

BTW, any official word on the EULA can come only from a court since
it's a legal agreement. Microsoft can say what they think it means,
users can say what they think it means and a court will say what it
DOES mean.

So far as I know, Microsoft has chosen not to test it in court. As a
matter of fact, I believe activation is one means of enforcing the EULA
w/o going through legal proceedings and that's why I suspect that the
activation working correctly should mean that Office installed in two
different operating systems on two different partitions of the same PC
does NOT break the EULA.

And I'm still waiting for opinions from MSFT people, MVPs and typical
users. Any attorneys here, please chip in.

Thank you

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Your prior comment implied that your client wanted more than
just an opinion
------
"Is this legal according to the EULA?" That's the question and the
person involved doesn't care to violate the EULA regardless of whether
it activates properly, he's concerned as to the "letter of the
agreement".
---------
The best source for that, short of a lawyer and court as you
now suggest, and actually activating it through your
scenario would be to contact Microsoft, the supplier of the software
and the licensing. Opinions would not seem to satisfy
your clients needs.

=======
Again, I was interested in hearing opinions here.

BTW, any official word on the EULA can come only from a court since
it's a legal agreement. Microsoft can say what they think it means,
users can say what they think it means and a court will say what it
DOES mean.

So far as I know, Microsoft has chosen not to test it in court. As a
matter of fact, I believe activation is one means of enforcing the EULA
w/o going through legal proceedings and that's why I suspect that the
activation working correctly should mean that Office installed in two
different operating systems on two different partitions of the same PC
does NOT break the EULA.

And I'm still waiting for opinions from MSFT people, MVPs and typical
users. Any attorneys here, please chip in.

Thank you>>

--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Your prior comment implied that your client wanted more than
just an opinion
------
"Is this legal according to the EULA?" That's the question and the
person involved doesn't care to violate the EULA regardless of whether
it activates properly, he's concerned as to the "letter of the
agreement".
---------
The best source for that, short of a lawyer and court as you
now suggest, and actually activating it through your
scenario would be to contact Microsoft, the supplier of the software
and the licensing. Opinions would not seem to satisfy
your clients needs.

=======
Again, I was interested in hearing opinions here.

BTW, any official word on the EULA can come only from a court since
it's a legal agreement. Microsoft can say what they think it means,
users can say what they think it means and a court will say what it
DOES mean.

So far as I know, Microsoft has chosen not to test it in court. As a
matter of fact, I believe activation is one means of enforcing the EULA
w/o going through legal proceedings and that's why I suspect that the
activation working correctly should mean that Office installed in two
different operating systems on two different partitions of the same PC
does NOT break the EULA.

And I'm still waiting for opinions from MSFT people, MVPs and typical
users. Any attorneys here, please chip in.

Thank you>>

--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Your prior comment implied that your client wanted more than
just an opinion
------
"Is this legal according to the EULA?" That's the question and the
person involved doesn't care to violate the EULA regardless of whether
it activates properly, he's concerned as to the "letter of the
agreement".
---------
The best source for that, short of a lawyer and court as you
now suggest, and actually activating it through your
scenario would be to contact Microsoft, the supplier of the software
and the licensing. Opinions would not seem to satisfy
your clients needs.

=======
Again, I was interested in hearing opinions here.

BTW, any official word on the EULA can come only from a court since
it's a legal agreement. Microsoft can say what they think it means,
users can say what they think it means and a court will say what it
DOES mean.

So far as I know, Microsoft has chosen not to test it in court. As a
matter of fact, I believe activation is one means of enforcing the EULA
w/o going through legal proceedings and that's why I suspect that the
activation working correctly should mean that Office installed in two
different operating systems on two different partitions of the same PC
does NOT break the EULA.

And I'm still waiting for opinions from MSFT people, MVPs and typical
users. Any attorneys here, please chip in.

Thank you>>

--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx