If I purchase Microsoft Office 2007, Can I put it on more than one computer?

Question

AHHHH. i want it. i have a trial right now. and i want to buy it... but i mostly use my computer at work... but i dont want to buy it and only have it on the one at work. lame. ill have to convince the company to get it then.

Answer 1

If you don't update it you might get away with putting it on more than 3 (But your pushing your luck, updating other programs like messenger or Explorer and they will find it). I believe you can put it on two that YOU own. Most software is listed for that. (most people have a desktop and laptop computer nowadays) Microsoft keys will work twice.

Just found this:
http://www.tabletquestions.com/microsoft-office/66920-installing-office-2007-two-computers.html

Answer 2

MS Office 2007 – should I upgrade? Features?
Install on two computers - 1st paragraph

Source: http://reviews.cnet.com/Microsoft_Office_2007_RTM/4514-3524_7-32143052.html?&cid=0&ei=o2VoRbDcIJzgHMnt_JwN

Breezing through the options, our fastest installation of Microsoft Office Standard 2007 took no more than 20 minutes on a Windows XP computer. However, settle into your chair if you're curious about the fine print. We spent 40 minutes just skimming the 10,379-word End User License Agreement and stopped before we could understand it all. Here are some of the highlights: You're allowed to install Office 2007 software on two computers; you must agree to download updates whenever Microsoft decides you need them; and Microsoft may verify your license key at any time to make sure that you're not using pirated software. We wished that Microsoft better explained the Internet-based services Office 2007 can connect to.

Should you upgrade to Microsoft Office 2007? It depends on how you work. If you're style-conscious and want to play with new document templates, then Office 2007 should please you. Outlook outshines its predecessors if you need to lean on it daily to manage meetings and tasks. At the same time, if you already use few of the features of Office 2003 or earlier and are getting along well, then there's little need to spend hundreds of dollars on the new software.

The radical new interface of Office 2007 applications is here to stay, and it's likely to spawn some copycats. For a software package with so many layers of features, it makes sense to cluster functions within icons and tabs rather than a hodgepodge of menu boxes. At the same time, we think that some users will find the dynamic tabs and galleries more distracting than useful. We anticipate that some makers of rival Office software will capitalize on Office 2007's steep learning curve and try to attract users with the relative simplicity of applications with pull-down menu interfaces that look and feel more like Office 2003 and earlier.

Because Microsoft has opened some of the Office 2007 source code to developers, prepare to see all sorts of add-ins, such as additional interface tabs, from third party developers. At this point, however, Microsoft hasn't created a gallery on its Web site to help you find such extras. Office 2007 doesn't approach the simplicity of upstart, Web-based alternatives, but it better serves up myriad features, and it's much less bloated than in the past.

Excellent link for help with Office 2007. Suggest you bookmark it.
http://www.uwec.edu/help/word07.htm

Answer 3

You would have to read the EULA to make sure you can install on more than one machine. If you get the Student/Teacher version, you can install on up to 3 machines (I think - might only be 2).

I received a promo copy of 2007 when it first came out, and I used the same key on 2 machines and have never had any problems. One machine is my "primary" and the other computer is a laptop that I rarely use, but take to customer sites to test their pc's and type up/print invoices, so this might fall under the 80/20 rule I've heard about (installation OK on 2 PC's as long as it's used no more than 80% on one machine and 20% on the other.)

Answer 4

rm333
as most responders here have said --- "no".

legally you buy one license for one machine.

the other reason is that Microsoft downloads updates to you on a regular basis and if you try to register both machines, it will not let you. So for the sake of the most current updates and legally ---'no'.

good luck :)

ps...if you havent seen Office 2007 yet, you may want to consider downloading a 60 day free trial because the 'look and feel' are quite different from previous versions.
:)

Answer 5

When you purchase Microsoft Office, you will get something called a product key.

This product key will allow you to activate the program on one computer.

If you install the program on more than one computer, you will not be able to use the same product key.

I hope this helps

Answer 6

Check with the software supplier who you buy your Microsoft Office 2007 from.

If you can't install it on other computers, you can always install OpenOffice on them.

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Answer 9

No. You have to purchase multiple licenses for that. But if you use freeware Open Office you will have no problem.
http://bestofrest.blogspot.com/2007/07/open-office.html

Answer 10

legally - No. morally- maybe. practically - yes......as long as they are not on the same network and used at the same time.

If you are talking a laptop and a desk tower then sometimes you can use the same copy for both legally.