But is the "license to use" tied to the original machine? Yes, I know that
the disk can physically be used as a qualifier but would not the upgrade
disk be licensed to the same machine as the OEM disk?. If I am wrong you
are saying that I could take my original Office 2000 SBE installed on an old
dead Dell and use it to qualify an upgrade to Office 2007 on a brand new
machine which effectively would transfer the OEM license to the new machine
from the old Dell. I don't think that MS's license agreement permits this.
Sorry LV, but you can use an OEM CD for an upgrade qualifier on a new
machine. There is no requirement that you install the program, just "show"
the disk duing installation.
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After furious head scratching, LVTravel asked:
| In addition to what JoAnn stated, I would suspect the original
| "pre-loaded by IBM" software was an OEM version which would not
| qualify for an upgrade version on a new PC as the OEM version would
| forever be tied to the original IBM system. Only retail versions of
| purchased software can be transferred to a different machine.
|
|
| || If you don;t have the disks, you cannot use an upgrade. You need the
|| full version of Offie 2007. Sorry.
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|| JoAnn Paules
|| MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
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|| How to ask a question
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http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
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|| ||| I have an old computer with Office XP that was pre-loaded by IBM
||| when I bought it and they didn't provide me with a cd.
|||
||| The IBM became too slow so I bought a new Dell and now I want to get
||| Office
||| 2007 Standard on the new computer.
|||
||| I want to do this by upgrading my Office XP and not purchasing a
||| new copy of
||| Office 2007.
|||
||| Can this be done and if so what steps do I need to take?
|||
||| Thank you
