license question

[phototkr]

I updated the wrong computer with Office Standard 2007.
Can I uninstall it and then be able to reinstall on the correct computer?

 

[Tom [Pepper] Willett]

Yes.

:I updated the wrong computer with Office Standard 2007.
: Can I uninstall it and then be able to reinstall on the correct computer?
: --
: Thank you.

 

[LVTravel]

I updated the wrong computer with Office Standard 2007.
Can I uninstall it and then be able to reinstall on the correct computer?

You can try but one portion of the EULA for Office 2007 would possibly apply
to you and it is:

"15. REASSIGN TO ANOTHER DEVICE. You may reassign the license to a
different device any number of times, but not more than one time every 90
days. If you reassign, that other device becomes the “licensed device.†If
you retire the licensed device due to hardware failure, you may reassign the
license sooner."

You probably will have to use telephone activation and depending on what you
tell the representative the transfer may be denied for 90 days.

If this should happen to be an OEM version, it is tied to the first computer
and "legally" can not be transferred even if an error occurred.

 

[phototkr]

Ok thanks -
Also, when you have a hardware failure, and the machine won't boot. How do
you uninstall it then? Is this done over the phone?

 

[LVTravel]

Ok thanks -
Also, when you have a hardware failure, and the machine won't boot. How
do
you uninstall it then? Is this done over the phone?

The telephone activation occurs when you install more than your license
permits within so many days otherwise online activation happens. Sometime
it can be done automatically over the telephone just by pushing buttons but
other times that also fails and you actually have to speak with a live
person, explain the situation and then they give you the activation code to
type in. When a system dies you, of course, don't have to uninstall it.
There is no "uninstall" cop at Microsoft except the activation process and
the occasional software validation when you download updates to an activated
program. When you transfer the program to another computer and activate it,
it overwrites the information in MS's database so that when the software is
updated on your computer it sends information that is compared with MS's
database to ensure that the software is installed legally.