Richard,
According to MS
http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal...s/default.aspx
and three EULA's I checked for Office 2003 and 2007 he can use it on up to 3
computers (two for Office 2007 with one being a portable device - which
could be a portable drive?).
I've not done this but he could try:
1. Load the office package on the XP drive or even install it to a different
drive and then,
2. Boot up Vista and load it to the same drive location you did under XP.
Again, I haven't tried that but since you can install Office on a network
(with proper license) this technically should work (I think...).
Bob S.
"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> The software has to be installed under each operating system. Sorry.
>
> And, you will run into licensing issues to boot. Each operating system is
> treated as a separate computer. So, it is the same as if you were
> installing Office/Acrobat/AutoCAD etc. on two different boxes.
>
> --
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban MVP
> Microsoft Windows Shell/User
>
>
> "Andrew Fiddian-Green" <nn@dd> wrote in message
> news:%23NLGYOkaHHA.2436@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>I have a machine running XP with a full gamut of installed applications
>>(e.g. MS Office, iTunes, BDS2006, and many more).
>>
>> This is a test and development machine, so I need to keep the XP
>> environment and all running application, but I want to also add Vista as
>> a dual boot.
>>
>> My question is whether it is possible for the Vista install to leave the
>> XP environment unchanged but copy the XP registry settings for the
>> installed applications into the Vista registry. Basically I would like
>> the existing applications to continue to work both under XP (existing)
>> and Vista (new).
>>
>> My reason is that for time and disk space reasons, I want to avoid having
>> to repeat the software installations of all these applications, and I
>> want both O/S to access the same "My Documents" folders. For example "My
>> Music" contains 50-60GB of stuff that I would like to access and add to
>> from both O/S instances.
>>
>> { Note: I did not yet decide whether to put Vista a) on a separate folder
>> in the same partition, b) on a different partition on the same drive, or
>> c) on a completely different drive; the most likely choice is c) but I
>> think that this is anyway irrelevant to my question... }
>>
>>
>>
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