License for >1 setup??

[Carol]

My daughter is going to college and wants to buy Office
XP Std for her desktop computer at school. However,
since she will be coming home and doing some work on the
home computer as well, she'd like to have it on our home
computer also. If we buy Office XP Std, can we install
it on both or what add'l cost would it be to license it
for both computers? She plans to buy it through the
university bookstore, so I didn't know if that made any
difference. Also, is the version for Students and
Teachers the same as the Std version? Thanks

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

The Students and Teachers Edition is slightly different than an Academic
version your daughter purchases through her institution.

See if the explanation here helps:
http://microsoft.com/office/howtobuy/choosing.asp

Note that the Students and Teachers Edition can only be installed on a
single computer. I am not sure how the version her school uses may work but
she should inquire at the bookstore when she buys it. I would tend to think
that it can be installed to a desktop and laptop for ease of use on a campus
where taking notes in a lab would require a notebook but writing
dissertations would require the relatively larger hard drive space of a
desktop.

Also look a this page for additional information on Academic Licenses - your
daughter should probably read this too and then ask the bookstore where she
will purchase the Office suite:
http://microsoft.com/education/?ID=AcademicDiscounts

Note that they sell both the full Academic Version and the STE version.


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Having searched the archives,
Carol <[email protected]> typed:
| My daughter is going to college and wants to buy Office
| XP Std for her desktop computer at school. However,
| since she will be coming home and doing some work on the
| home computer as well, she'd like to have it on our home
| computer also. If we buy Office XP Std, can we install
| it on both or what add'l cost would it be to license it
| for both computers? She plans to buy it through the
| university bookstore, so I didn't know if that made any
| difference. Also, is the version for Students and
| Teachers the same as the Std version? Thanks

 

[Amethyst]

The Students and Teachers Edition is slightly different than an
Academic version your daughter purchases through her institution.

See if the explanation here helps:
http://microsoft.com/office/howtobuy/choosing.asp

Note that the Students and Teachers Edition can only be installed on a
single computer. I am not sure how the version her school uses may
work but she should inquire at the bookstore when she buys it. I
would tend to think that it can be installed to a desktop and laptop
for ease of use on a campus where taking notes in a lab would require
a notebook but writing dissertations would require the relatively
larger hard drive space of a desktop.

Also look a this page for additional information on Academic Licenses
- your daughter should probably read this too and then ask the
bookstore where she will purchase the Office suite:
http://microsoft.com/education/?ID=AcademicDiscounts

Note that they sell both the full Academic Version and the STE
version.



Having searched the archives,

In addition to what Milly has told you, the retail version CANNOT be
installed on two systems of the same type (i.e. 2 desktops or 2 laptops).
This would require the purchase of an additional licence. The STE may only
be installed on one computer at a time - installation on a second requires
removal from the first.
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