My company provided a free copy of Microsoft Office 2007 for home use
which I installed on my personal laptop. It works fine and gets
updates from the MS server. My desktop computer has Microsoft Office
2003. I have decided to swap installations and put the 2007 edition on
my desktop instead now and put the 2003 version on the laptop..

How do I go about performing this feat? I am sure there will be
licensing issues when I go to validate the products. I don't want to
mess up my current installs unless I know I can make them work properly.

badgolferman wrote:
My company provided a free copy of Microsoft Office 2007 for home use
which I installed on my personal laptop. It works fine and gets
updates from the MS server. My desktop computer has Microsoft Office
2003. I have decided to swap installations and put the 2007 edition on
my desktop instead now and put the 2003 version on the laptop..

How do I go about performing this feat? I am sure there will be
licensing issues when I go to validate the products. I don't want to
mess up my current installs unless I know I can make them work properly.

Open any office program and go to Help/About to read the EULAs of each
version of Office. As most versions allow one install on a desktop and
another on a laptop, you shouldn't have any licensing problems. In fact,
if what you really want to do is get rid of 07 (or vice versa), you
should be able to have 03 or 07 on both machines.

P

Incorrect. Office 2007 Enterprise Home Use program is a single use license.

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After furious head scratching, P asked:

| badgolferman wrote:
|| My company provided a free copy of Microsoft Office 2007 for home use
|| which I installed on my personal laptop. It works fine and gets
|| updates from the MS server. My desktop computer has Microsoft Office
|| 2003. I have decided to swap installations and put the 2007 edition
|| on my desktop instead now and put the 2003 version on the laptop..
||
|| How do I go about performing this feat? I am sure there will be
|| licensing issues when I go to validate the products. I don't want to
|| mess up my current installs unless I know I can make them work
|| properly.
|
| Open any office program and go to Help/About to read the EULAs of each
| version of Office. As most versions allow one install on a desktop and
| another on a laptop, you shouldn't have any licensing problems. In
| fact, if what you really want to do is get rid of 07 (or vice versa),
| you should be able to have 03 or 07 on both machines.
|
| P

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
Incorrect. Office 2007 Enterprise Home Use program is a single use license.

Which is way I used "most versions" and "read the EULAs".

P

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
ALWAYS post your Outlook version.
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


After furious head scratching, P asked:

| badgolferman wrote:
|| My company provided a free copy of Microsoft Office 2007 for home use
|| which I installed on my personal laptop. It works fine and gets
|| updates from the MS server. My desktop computer has Microsoft Office
|| 2003. I have decided to swap installations and put the 2007 edition
|| on my desktop instead now and put the 2003 version on the laptop..
||
|| How do I go about performing this feat? I am sure there will be
|| licensing issues when I go to validate the products. I don't want to
|| mess up my current installs unless I know I can make them work
|| properly.
|
| Open any office program and go to Help/About to read the EULAs of each
| version of Office. As most versions allow one install on a desktop and
| another on a laptop, you shouldn't have any licensing problems. In
| fact, if what you really want to do is get rid of 07 (or vice versa),
| you should be able to have 03 or 07 on both machines.
|
| P