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
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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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.