[Dave Symes]

I'm not being picky Terry, just adding to the info as I remember it from
way back when... Gawd! it was a long time ago.

I remember 10/12 MB Winchester HDs being though of as excessive amounts of
storage when the 5 & 1/4 floppy ruled... A few years ago we dumped loads
of those floppies we'd found in a storage cupboard, the movable disk part
had become stuck to the case... Not that we had anything to read them with
by then. :-(
Tarnation, I think Brain rot has set in... I'm not sure now of the size of
those things, I think it was 320K for single density and 640K for double
density... And before that 8 inch floppies storing 100K.
How things have come on since then...

My reading of the EULA for Word 2007 is... The purchaser has permission to
install on one desktop machine, but not on any other partitions that might
be on that machine.
That purchaser also has permission to install on one portable computer,
providing he/she is the sole owner of both machines.

That's what I've done here, installed and registered on my Desktop, and
also installed and registered with my Laptop, I've not encountered any
complaints or authentication problems from MS updates.

Dave


In article ,
wrote:
If MS was designing Word now starting from nothing, then without doubt
it would be designed to run from a flash drive. But Word has been
around since the days when 100 MB hard drives were thought excessive
and 5¼" floppies ruled. We have to live with these legacies because
major changes would break backward compatibility. This may change
eventually, but with the high percentage of licensing limited to a
single desktop (and possibly a laptop), having Word run from a flash
drive would not be in MS's best interests.

Terry

"Larry" wrote in message
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Thanks.
What is the difference between these portable programs, like Portable
OpenOffice, and MS Word, that enables the former to be installed and
run on a flash drive?

Larry


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