RE: Training site installation

Hello Joe-
I'm not a lawyer, nor do I pretend to be any type of authority on MS
licensing, so this is strictly my opinion. Keeping in mind that the primary
objective is to prevent piracy/unauthorized use of the software, your
intended purpose as stated seems perfectly legitimate. The restriction you
ran into before with Windows is a little different as the apps allow you to
run them 50 times without 'activating' them. If the program is installed on
the training systems but not activated & then uninstalled after the training,
it doesn't seem that there would be any violation of the license agreement...
especially if the training is exclusively for the benefit of legit licensees.

The installation on 1 dt & 1 lt would still be subject to activation in
order to run more than the allowed 50 sessions. Make sense?

HTH |:>)

"Joe" wrote:

> Several of my colleagues want to get Publisher 2003 and have asked me to
> provide some training. We have a computer lab that we can use for training,
> and its computers are connected to the Internet. If they install their copies
> of Publisher on the lab computers, will they then only have one installation
> left for their desktop computers but not their laptops? I ask because when
> our IT folks scrubbed my computer to upgrade from Windows 2000 to XP, I had
> to call Microsoft to get permission to reinstall my copy. (My alternative
> strategy for training is to use my laptop and a projector in our conference
> room.) Thanks for any help or insight you can offer.
> --
> Joe
.

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