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Installing Office 2003 SBE to a Laptop

Oct 1, 2005 1:28AM PDT

I am going to purchase a laptop. I have Office 2003 SBE running on my XP Home desktop and want to install the same program on the laptop with the idea of sharing email and Word documents and whatever. I do have the installation CD and product key.

Question one: how can MS tell I'm installing on my own laptop, which as I understand it is permitted, as opposed to installing on someone else's machine?

Question two: could someone please tell me the 1,2,3 A,B,C steps required to install to a new laptop (which will have a 30-day trial version of this program already loaded, by the way)?

TIA for any help!

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Depends on the license, but do try.
Oct 1, 2005 2:44AM PDT

Some of the MS Licenses allow 2 installs. Not all do, but some. As to how they tell if they do, such is WIDELY DISCUSSED out there. No one here will tell you much more than it does work. If this is too expensive today, consider OPEN OFFICE which costs little to nothing. It's what I use and have it installed on every machine.

"please tell me the 1,2,3 A,B,C steps required to install to a new laptop"

Put the CD in, answer the install questions.

Bob

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Installing Office 2003
Oct 1, 2005 4:00AM PDT

Well, thanks for telling me that! I will check the EULA to find out. (I thought I read on another thread where someone had quoted this permission from the EULA, so figured I was going to be okay.)

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EULA and The Other Question
Oct 1, 2005 4:04AM PDT

Okay. I did check the EULA and found this:

1.1 Installation and use. You may:
(a) install and use a copy of the Software on one personal computer or other device; and
(b) install an additional copy of the Software on a second, portable device for the exclusive use of the primary user of the first copy of the Software.

So I assume I'm okay with that part. (Any ideas regarding my question about how, in this case, MS can tell it's "really me" installing the software to the laptop? I just get really curious about these things.)

Thanks again.

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Widely discussed.
Oct 1, 2005 4:50AM PDT

I don't duplicate web content, but Microsoft reveals a little about how they identify the machine or user at their web site. There's not much I can add except it seems to work.

The EULA varies with the exact CD/Version so it does you no good for me to copy my EULA.

Bob