Re: MSO Cross-Grade Licensing From Windows To Mac

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The only "official" answer would have to come from MS, but in general the
expected response is No - there is no cross-platform licensing. Mac product
& Windows product are from separate business units within MS.

Depending on which edition of Mac Office you already have you may be
entitled to install it on 2 separate systems as long as you only run it on
one at a time.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



On 5/10/09 1:16 PM, in article 59b7425e.-1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"Kurt_Todoroff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <Kurt_Todoroff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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

Gentlemen:

I have used Macintosh and MSO at home since 1989.

I own a small business, and I have a Windows machine on my desk. I use it for
accounting (Peachtree by Sage), credit card processing, and other business
tasks. This computer has a licensed copy of Microsoft Office 2007 on it. I
plan to replace this computer with an Intel iMac 24-inch in July. I will
purchase Parallels Desktop and run my Windows applications inside it on the
new iMac. (I already tested all of my Windows applications on a demo version
of Parallels on my father's Intel iMac. They performed quite well, and their
speed was surprisingly quick.) Even though my Windows computer has the
licensed version of MSO 2007 on it, I want to run MSO 2008 natively on the new
iMac.

Does Microsoft provide a cross-grade licensing mechanism for my situation,
such that I can migrate from MSO 2007 Windows to MSO 2008 Mac without paying
the full purchase price for MSO 2008? Once I migrate from the Windows machine
to the new iMac, I will not be using it anymore. I'll keep it only for
emergency situations, which, given my twenty-three years of Mac experience,
will probably be zero. In other words, I won't be using the MSO 2007
applications anymore. Nor will I be selling this computer to somebody who
would be using them.

I have no employees who would use this computer. I have one partner, my
father, who brought his older G5 iMac to the office from home after he
replaced it with a newer Intel iMac. He would not be using the old Windows
machine.

Thank you.

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