Office legality

[Jan W. de-Kulik]

With such differences in prices for Office on offers some of them must be
illegal copies.

Is there a way of establishing legality of Office without first installing
it, say from the number of Product Key?

The web I had for checking the legality of Windows and Office:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sam/msia/default.asp
no longer exists.

Thank you,

Jan

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Jan,

MS redid some of the Anit-piracy and Software Management Tool pages.
See if the information here helps:
http://microsoft.com/resources/howtotell/ww/default.aspx

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With such differences in prices for Office on offers some of them must be
illegal copies.

Is there a way of establishing legality of Office without first installing
it, say from the number of Product Key?

The web I had for checking the legality of Windows and Office:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sam/msia/default.asp
no longer exists.

Thank you,

Jan >>
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I hope this helps you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

The Office 2003 System parts explained
http://microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.asp

 

[Jan W. de-Kulik]

Hi Bob

Thank you for the reply.

What if one is buying a second hand "unused" but opened product, is there a
way of checking whether it has been used and the Product Number registered
with Microsoft?

Jan