Office XP version 2002 should have had a clearer eula

[pleb]

Hi,

I am currently a full-time student and so is my fiancé. We recently
purchased a laptop for us to use for study purposes and were hoping to use
the great Office software that you provide. I have Office XP Professional
which I bought a year or two ago and am running it on my Desktop PC. We
didn't have enough money to buy MSOffice when we bought the laptop but I
noticed that the latest version of Office (Academic) has a licence for up to
3 computers.

My question is: Is it legal for me to install my Office XP Professional
version 2002 (Academic) on our laptop or not?


thankyou very much for your assistance,

pleb

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[Evadne Cake]

Hi,

I am currently a full-time student and so is my fiancé. We recently
purchased a laptop for us to use for study purposes and were hoping to use
the great Office software that you provide. I have Office XP Professional
which I bought a year or two ago and am running it on my Desktop PC. We
didn't have enough money to buy MSOffice when we bought the laptop but I
noticed that the latest version of Office (Academic) has a licence for up to
3 computers.

My question is: Is it legal for me to install my Office XP Professional
version 2002 (Academic) on our laptop or not?


thankyou very much for your assistance,

pleb

No, the Academic licence does *NOT* have provision for installation on up to
3 computers - you're confusing it with the Students and Teachers Edition. An
academic licence may only be purchased on campus from a recognised supplier -
you can walk into most software stores and pick up the STE off the shelf. The
STE is Office Standard only - an Academic licence can be any flavour. The
same licensing restrictions apply to the Academic licence as would apply to
any retail version of Office (bar the STE), i.e. it can be installed on one
desktop and one laptop providing they are for the exclusive use of the
primary licensee and are not in use simultaneously.

Please note that the XP STE could be installed on one computer at a time.