Re: I have 4 computers in my home

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From: Barry Watzman (WatzmanNOSPAM_at_neo.rr.com)
Date: 08/16/04 

Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 21:25:30 -0400
To: "p51mustang[threeX12]" <"p51mustang[threeX12]"@xxxhotmail.calm>

Actually, if you get Office 2003 Students & Teachers (S&T) edition, you
can legally install it on 3 computers in the same household. Word is
that, unofficially, Microsoft doesn't care if you are not a student or
teacher, as long as it's for personal rather than business use. In any
case, there is no enforcement of the "Student and Teacher" restriction
other than the "honor system".

Also, while the non S&T retail editions can only be installed on two
computers (which are nominally supposed to be a laptop and desktop), I'm
not sure that there is an explicit restriction to that effect in the
EULA, or a restriction against simultaneous use. Certainly, EULA aside,
Product Activation's only enforced restriction is 2 computers. Type and
simultaneous use, even if prohibited by the EULA, are not enforced.

Jim Macklin wrote:

> You can move to Viet Nam, I understand that it is cheap
> there.
>
> One computer, one OS, one hundred dollars. You can install
> OFFICE on a laptop and a desktop, so that requires only 2
> retail OFFICE as long as the laptops are not ON while the
> others are too.
>
>

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