The world does not revolve around Microsoft Office alone, though Microsoft
would like it to. Most any application you buy today is meant to be for use
on one computer, unless the package says otherwise.
--
Regards,
Richard Urban MVP
Microsoft Windows Shell/User
"BobS" <no-spam@noplace.com> wrote in message
news:eQKDhWwaHHA.4000@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> 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
> news:OTE0eXkaHHA.4808@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> 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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