...legally (ie without Microsoft getting on my back and crashing my PC or something).
2007-03-27 04:18:02 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
meg has it right. If you bought it with a special license, you can do it. You could probably install it, but you won't get any updates is most likly the case. I wouldn't do it. Microsoft is a real pain in the *** about this and has a history of going after the poor little guy because they didn't get their lousy $200.
I use open Office, which is the same program, made by Sun Microsytems, the Java people, it's virtually the same program, the data files are completely compatible, and it's free. You can install it on as many machines as you want.
http://www.openoffice.org
2007-03-27 04:34:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't think so. The following pertains to WindowsXP, but I am sure it applies to anything Microsoft. You might be able to load it, but you will not be able to update and eventually you will be "encouraged" to buy.
"Windows installer makes you type the unique 25-character code that's printed on the case of your Windows XP CD. Later, the Product Activation programs looks at various serial numbers inside your PC - the processor, network card, and disk drives, etc. -- mixes them together, and produces a second 25-character code that identifies your PC. Those 50 characters, taken together, are called the installation ID.
When you activate Windows XP, you give Microsoft the 50 character installation ID.
I'm going to skip some information here -- to continue -- every time WindowsXP starts, it recalculates the 25-character code that's based on the various serial numbers inside your PC. If the recalculated 25-character code doesn't match your original code, the activation time clock starts over and it continues to remind you relentlessly, etc. etc.
All this and much more is covered in Chapter 2.
Source: WindowsXP Gigabook, by Peter Weverka.
2007-03-27 04:41:31 · answer #2 · answered by TheHumbleOne 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
legally you may no longer have an identical reproduction of residing house windows working on 2 machines. in spite of if that's an o.e.m version, that's mot in basic terms unlawful yet impossible. i'm guessing for the reason that to procure it from the college, (it extremely is how I have been given mine, my cousin picked it on the college bookshop) that's not the OEM, that's the retail pupil version I certainly have. you may set up it now, yet you may no longer use on the previous device when you install it on the hot one. it extremely is legally. i think of in case you enable adequate time flow with the help of, a 365 days or so, between installs, MS loses music and you have got it working on 2 structures. i'm uncertain in this. all i comprehend is i had a workstation die on me, i moved the xp set up and license to a crappy computing gadget i threw mutually out of spare areas, a venture that failed miserably, later I fastened the workstation that the license grew to become into transfered from, it booted up, passes all of the validation assessments, even in spite of the indisputable fact that the license grew to become into supposedly moved to a different computing gadget. I been applying it a 365 days now like that with out concern. yet then i'm no longer applying the "legal" computing gadget anymore. i do no longer comprehend what might take place in the event that they the two logged on on an identical time.
2016-10-20 13:12:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can legally put it on 3 computers you own.
2007-03-27 06:47:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on your license agreement; usually its for one machine. But Open Office is identical, legal and free.
http://www.openoffice.org
And you can install it on as many machines as you own.
2007-03-27 04:31:13 · answer #5 · answered by sarah c 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
100% no. Read the EULA that is on the disk to find out what kind of licence it has.
2007-03-28 04:26:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes you can but do not tell bill gates he will want you to have 2 copy's as you do not register in its not a problem
2007-03-27 05:53:58 · answer #7 · answered by simonjohnlaw 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you own a legal copy of the software you can download it onto any computer that you own.
2007-03-27 04:22:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
If you have "student and teacher" you can put it on up to three computers. Otherwise, no.
2007-03-27 04:22:19 · answer #9 · answered by Meg W 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes
2007-03-27 04:21:25 · answer #10 · answered by DickyNowItAll 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋