Using Office on two laptops

[Rayman]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

Hello!

I am a MacBook user. I have bought a boxed version of Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac and I am going to install it and activate it on my current laptop.

In two month I am planning to buy myself a MacBook Air. Will I be able to use the same Office 2008 on my new laptop, or do I have to buy a new one? Or should I just wait for my new laptop and install my Office cope only there?

Thanks!

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

In two month I am planning to buy myself a MacBook Air. Will I be able
to use the same Office 2008 on my new laptop, or do I have to buy a new
one? Or should I just wait for my new laptop and install my Office cope
only there?

It depends on what version of Office you have. With the Family edition,
I believe you can install on up to 5 Mac.
With the regular version, it's a desktop plus a laptop.
With your setup, you wouldn't be allowed to have Office running o both
at the same time.

Corentin

 

[Michel Bintener]

Hi,

you are entitled to install Office on a laptop and a desktop and use it on
both machines, provided you do not run the apps on both machines at the same
time.

If you have the Home & Student Edition, you have three licenses which you
can use, so there is no real problem here.

If you own the Standard, Special Media or Business Edition of Office 2008,
you are not allowed to install it on two *laptops*, so theoretically, you
would have to get two licenses to run Office on both machines.

 

[Rayman]

It's a Standard edition.

What if I use it on the laptop I have now and when I get a new laptop I will install it there and will not use it on the old one?

 

[Rob Schneider]

It may be simpler to read the license terms for yourself at
http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/useterms/

--rms

www.rmschneider.com

 

[Michel Bintener]

If you remove Office entirely from your old laptop, then it should be okay.