Here is a PARTIAL list of license types MS has used for Office:įPP- Full Product Pack, AKA "big ugly yellow Plastic CD holder box", AKA "Retail Box", can also be bought online This wiki will focus on the 3 key points to transferring software to a new computer.
Where and "how" you are allowed to use the license: at home for "personal" use, in business, what countries. Do you have the right to move the software from one computer to another, aka "Transfer". For the consumer licenses we are considering this typically ranges between 1 to 3 computers at the same time How many computers do you have the "right" to install and "activate" this product using this license. you are leasing the software, you are not "buying" it. This discussion is primarily about Office 2010, and earlier, licenses but is partly relevant for Windows too.īoiled down into simple "non-legalistic" language, there are a few key points in the license terms: These licenses have various different "license terms". The type of licenses have also varied over time. Now for both Office 2016 and Office 365 the license is now primarily associated with the email account, no longer with the hardware it is installed on. Note: This article does not apply to Office 2016. It has a whole new and improved user controlled process for transferring licenses. Office 365 "subscription" (aka keep-paying-for-it-forever) license type. Note: This discussion does not apply to the new a generic installation disk or file for the Office bundle that matches the Product Key. have a license type that allows "transfers", ie for consumers that is a "Retail" or "FPP" type license. To do that you need to meet 3 conditions: Many people would like to know how to "move" an existing Office installation to a new computer when they buy one.
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