Beth
I agree that this does certainly imply so. It still seems a bit hazy because
if you purchase a retail pack upgrade for the old PC, the Eula for the
upgrade implies it is transferable (with no mention of the qualifying app
needing to be transferable too). It is a bit of a shady area unless there is
something written.
Normally, we would call Microsoft business support for queries like this,
but lately we have been getting different answers to licensing queries
depending on who answers the call!
Terry
"Beth Melton" wrote in message
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Please let me know if you find something, Terry. I was verbally told it
couldn't be used as a qualifying product on another computer in a session
on licensing a summit or two ago.
I did a little searching too. I haven't found anything that explicitly
discusses OEM licensing and upgrades but this link seems to imply it can't
be used on another computer:
http://www.microsoft.com/ireland/sma...sbe/newpc.mspx
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Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton
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Guides for the Office 2007 Interface:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/tr...295841033.aspx
"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
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I'm still looking for a written answer to this. At the moment I can only
confirm that (my old employers) still sell Upgrades and use the old OEM
CD from the scrapped PC as the qualifying app. They are trying to find
the source of the information.
Terry Farrell
"Beth Melton" wrote in message
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What Suzanne said. ;-)
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Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton
What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs
Guides for the Office 2007 Interface:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/tr...295841033.aspx
"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
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Beth
I'm going to look into this further because my understanding is that
you can use an OEM Office as an upgrade qualification. In a similar
way, you can purchase a software assurance upgrade for an OEM version
of Office. Perhaps this has changed since I last had a Microsoft
License Overview, maybe with the introduction of Office 2007?
Terry
"Beth Melton" wrote in message
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You can't use an OEM version of Office as a qualifying product on
another computer. You noted, an OEM version is tied to the computer it
is installed on and the license cannot be transferred to another
computer. The original version and upgrade are considered a single
product and cannot be separated. So if the OEM license is dead it
can't be used at all.