Office XP Pro Licenses for Standard Machine Image

[T. Garay]

If we have 50 machines in our office, all of which were created using
a standard drive image (so all are essentially identical as far as
software installed) and all of which have MS Office XP Pro installed
on them. If only 40 people use MS Office but those 40 people could
end up using any of the 50 machines at any given time, how many
licenses do we buy?

Now let's say that there are 40 people using the 50 machines. 5 of
the 40 people will use the extra "Pro" features of MS Office (Access,
etc..) and the other 35 only use "Standard" features. Can we buy 35
MS Office Standard licenses and 5 MS Office Pro licenses and still be
legal even though Pro is actually installed on all 50 machines?

Thanks!

Just trying to bridge the gap between what Microsoft wants in the way
of money and what the company wants to save in software...

-Tim

 

[bxb7668]

Unfortunately M$ uses a node-locked per machine license system. Each
PC must have a license for all of the sw on the box. Unless of course
you can negotiate a site license with M$. Then it depends on the
negotiation.