No, OEM software lives and dies with the system that it came installed on.
You cannot transfer the software or the license to another machine.
--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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Having searched the archives,
Jerry Young <
[email protected]> typed:
| I can't locate anything but the CD's and it asks for a
| Product ID with OEM in the middle. Any hope of
| recovering anything here?
|| -----Original Message-----
|| The ID should be on the Jewel Case, if MS copy.
|| Possibly OEM copy as apposed to MS copy in which case maybe with
|| original paperwork?
|| Its been posted that you can use any valid MS Office97sbe id to
|| install so...
|| David
||
|| ||| I have the complete CD distribution from a previous
||| Desktop computer, it was bundled with it. That computer
||| is dead and gone, and I would like to install this on my
||| new laptop running XP. Is there a way to get the Product
||| Code?
||
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