- #Transfer microsoft office 2007 to new computer software license#
- #Transfer microsoft office 2007 to new computer install#
- #Transfer microsoft office 2007 to new computer update#
- #Transfer microsoft office 2007 to new computer full#
- #Transfer microsoft office 2007 to new computer code#
You have to have bought a legal copy of Microsoft Office, and be the legal user of the license. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Outlook Social Connector, Publisher, Access, InfoPath, SharePoint Workspace, Project Standard, Visio Premium, Visio Professional, Project Professional, and the Home and Student versions of the following: Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint, Word. This applies to all Microsoft Office products. This was confirmed by a reply tweet on Twitter by Microsoft Australia.
#Transfer microsoft office 2007 to new computer install#
The same applies to earlier versions of Office.Īccording to sub section c "Portable Device", of section 2 "Instalation and Use Rights": "You may install another copy of the software on a portable device for use by the single primary user of the licensed device”
#Transfer microsoft office 2007 to new computer software license#
The exception among retail editions is for software marked “Home and Student” edition, where you may install one copy of the software on up to three licensed devices in your household for use by people for whom that is their primary residence.Īccording to the Microsoft Office EULA, which you can download from the Microsoft Software License Terms (MSLT) for Microsoft Office 2010 page, you can clearly read that you can legally install single-pack Microsoft Office on two computers. Legitimate use on two machines simultaneously (comparing two versions of a spreadsheet, for example) isn't prohibited by the license, though you will need to turn off network connections on the second computer.
#Transfer microsoft office 2007 to new computer code#
(This catches out users of pirated product keys) (The EULA says "BY USING THE SOFTWARE, YOU CONSENT TO THE TRANSMISSION OF THIS INFORMATION." in capital letters) If it detects the license code is in use, the application will politely inform the second user and quit. If a second user opens an Office product on your portable machine, it connects to the Internet to check if another licensed copy is running. The terms of the licence make it clear that only the primary user can run the software, and Office itself enforces that requirement. The second installation is intended to be used by the primary user while travelling, at home or at a satellite office. Most retail versions of Office allow a single user to install a second copy on a laptop, tablet computer or other portable machine. Note: in UK English spelling, 'license' is the verb, and 'licence' the noun.
#Transfer microsoft office 2007 to new computer full#
Your only legal (and technically feasible) solution will be to either purchase a new machine which has its own MS Office (preloaded or accompanying) or to pony up for a full retail MS Office install package. In any case, you do not have either disks or activation code. To comply with the licence, you would have to uninstall the first portable installation of Office before proceeding with the second. You cannot install MS Office on two portable computers under one licence. If the MS Office package came as a "full retail" disc, then its licence would allow installation on one fixed (desktop) and one portable (laptop, notebook, netbook, etc) computer only, provided that the portable device is only used by the primary owner of the fixed one.
#Transfer microsoft office 2007 to new computer update#
Even if it did not, it would be a violation of the Microsoft EULA (End User License Agreement) to perform such an installation, and quite possibly a subsequent Windows or MS Office update would invalidate the installation, preventing its further use. If the MS Office package was supplied on disk with the older machine as an OEM version intended for use on that machine, then it is tied to that machine, and in fact may have a modified installation routine which will check for qualifying hardware (the machine that it is tied to). Nor would it be legal (in terms of the licensing status of the Office installation) to do so, even if you could physically do it, which you can't. If Microsoft Office was pre-loaded on the older machine in this way then there is no way that is is technically possible to transfer that installation to another machine. They are not suitable for use on other machines, both for technical and legal reasons, as you will gather below. These can be purchased in the event of loss. Recovery discs are included which can bring the machine back to as-sold condition. Computer makers often create a disk image for each model that they sell, containing the appropriate version of Windows, complete with any preloaded software sold as part of the deal, which they clone onto each new computer at the end of the assembly process. Microsoft Office is made so that you have to install it from disc. The short answer is probably going to be "you can't".