Re: Office Activation- dual boot

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From: Greg R (webworm12_at_yes.hotmail.com)
Date: 01/25/05 

Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:37:51 -0500

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>On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:53:33 -0000, "Miss Perspicacia Tick" <misstick@lancre.dw> wrote:

>Joe wrote:
>> I am planning a new multiboot PC with Windows XP Pro (retail) on two
>> partitions.
>> My questions concern Office 2003 which I intend to install on both
>> partitions.
>> My understanding is that I will only need one licences.
>> 1: How do I activate? Do I need to activate from both partitions or
>> only from one- if one, which one.
>> 2: Although I expect that there will seldom be significant hardware
>> changes, I do expect that I may have to on occasion reformat one of
>> the partitions and do a new clean install of WIN XP Pro and Office
>> (as I will be testing
>> some potentially poorly behaved software). Will I have to reactivate
>> Office after
>> any reinstalltion and if so how?
>> thank
>
>
>Sorry, but you are *WRONG*. You will require *two* Windows licences and
>*two* Office licences. The Windows licence is a one time installation (i.e.
>you *cannot* dual boot with the same licence) on one computer.
>
>The Office licence is the same. The EULA states that it may be installed one
>time on one desktop and one laptop - providing they are for the sole use of
>the licencee and are not in simultaneous use. Dual booting is (as far as the
>licence is concerned) two desktops and, therefore, two licences are
>required.

One can be used as backup? They do allow backups.
Here is a post copied from Windows xp group.
And Alex is an Mvp.

====
>>>EvolBob wrote:

>>>My main point that I failed to convey, was the general agreement from this
>>>NG is that - someone with 2 XP OS on the SAME computer, would need 2
>>>licenses to legally run them.
>>>
>>>I had hoped you guys had some guts to say it would be a little unreasonable
>>>for MS to prosecute, when one can only use one OS at the time (usually):
========
>>Alex Wrote
>>I agree with you, and have made the point into Microsoft at the highest level.
>>The fact that only one instance can be run at any time
>>distinguishes from installation on multiple machines. I would suggest
>>installing once and you then have only one installation. Then clone
>>that to a second partition and you arguably still have only one installation

>>Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
>>Bournemouth, U.K. Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)

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