Can I load Office 2007 onto both my desktop & my laptop computers

[Inky]

I have an authorised copy of MS Office 2007 on my desktop computer.Can I also
load the same copy onto my new Laptop.
If legally I cannot do this do I have to set up a network?

 

[DL]

You would need to read the EULA agreement of your installed version of
Office to check.
Setting up a network has nothing to do with Office and will not allow you to
run applications installed on the other networked PC

 

[Earle Horton]

I believe that Fair Use Doctrine gives Inky the right to do this, no matter
what the EULA says. Whether the MSFT activation server sees it this way is
another matter. Fair Use Doctrine is the product of court decisions and
says that purchasers of intellectual property, songs, books, computer
software, etc., have the right to make copies for "fair" personal use, such
as burning songs to CD to play in their own car while they are driving it,
not for example copies to give to friends.

The way to find out is to install it on the laptop and see what happens when
you try to activate. If it doesn't work you at least have the sixty-day
trial period and an idea of how well it functionas on the laptop.

Earle

 

[DL]

nonesense

I believe that Fair Use Doctrine gives Inky the right to do this, no matter
what the EULA says. Whether the MSFT activation server sees it this way is
another matter. Fair Use Doctrine is the product of court decisions and
says that purchasers of intellectual property, songs, books, computer
software, etc., have the right to make copies for "fair" personal use, such
as burning songs to CD to play in their own car while they are driving it,
not for example copies to give to friends.

The way to find out is to install it on the laptop and see what happens
when you try to activate. If it doesn't work you at least have the
sixty-day trial period and an idea of how well it functionas on the
laptop.

Earle

 

[Earle Horton]

Which part, the trial period? Or the idea that Microsoft might be subject
to court decisions? Some of their products, too lazy to look up which ones
right now, do allow installation on a desktop and on a laptop, belonging to
and used by the same user.

Earle

 

[Bob I]

Which part, the trial period? Or the idea that Microsoft might be
subject to court decisions? Some of their products, too lazy to look up
which ones right now, do allow installation on a desktop and on a
laptop, belonging to and used by the same user.

Yes, and the EULA will state excately that IF that version licencing has
those right.

 

[Peter Foldes]

Earl

The OP states Office 2007. But which version of Office 2007. He has to read the Eula
for his particular version. As far as your previous post in this thread goes it is
completely ridiculous what you posted

 

[Earle Horton]

No it isn't. MSFT "grants" users the right to load certain versions on a
desktop and on a laptop, to avoid having to face this issue in court. I
agree that the OP has to read the EULA to find out, or he could just load
the software and treat it as a trial version if activation fails. I assume
he's talking about a retail version of the software here, not an OEM copy.

If the people in Redmond had their way, every time you installed a copy of
their software you would have to pay them.

Earle