[AccessD] Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows: Lifetime License | TechSpot

[Jim Dettman]

 It depends on the key, not what's in the EULA.

 The EULA covers all the license types:

Retail
OEM
Volume

 It's only when you go to do it that you find out if you have a problem or
not.

 Almost all these cheap licenses are of the OEM type because it's easy for
them to get away with that, or they are selling "recycled" licenses.  There
are exceptions of course, but if you do have a retail license, then I would
suspect it's not legit in some way.  Microsoft would not be the company it
is today if they were getting less than $49/copy of Office.

 As they say, too good to be true probably is.

Jim.

-----Original Message-----
From: AccessD On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2022 9:19 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows:
Lifetime License | TechSpot

Office 2021 Pro Plus Retail installed , registered and running.

Looking at the Licence, you CAN transfer it to another machine (so it's a
good idea to 
download the offliine image and archive it somewhere along with the Licence
key 
(presumably only if you sign in to the same MS account you used when you
first 
downloaded and installed - I have a couple of MS accounts and initally had a
problem 
licencing Office because WIndows was using a different MS account to the one
I used for 
the licence.  Changing the MS account resolved the issue)

Here's the relevant licence section:
Stand-alone software acquired from a retailer. If you acquired the software
from a retailer as 
stand-alone software, you may transfer the software to another device that
belongs to you, 
but no more than once every 90 days (except due to hardware failure, in
which case you 
may transfer sooner). If you transfer the software to another device, that
other device 
becomes the "licensed device." You may also transfer the software to a
device owned by 
someone else if (i) you are the first licensed user of the software and (ii)
the new user 
agrees to the terms of this agreement. Every time you transfer the software
to a new device, 
you must remove the software from the prior device. You may not transfer the
software to 
share licenses between devices.



On 23 Jun 2022 at 9:53, Stuart McLachlan wrote:

> Looks like it is a full retail licence, not OEM. 
> 
> I just got it.  After getting a LicenceCode you ar directed to the
> Microsoft site to install. I entered the Licence Code on the microsoft
> site and they offered me Office 2021 Pro Plus. I picked "offline
> installation" and have just downloaded the 4.2GB image directly from
> micorosoft.
> 
> The filename from MS is :ProPlus2021Retail.img
>  -- 
> Stuart
> 
> On 22 Jun 2022 at 7:46, Jim Dettman via AccessD wrote:
> 
> > 2. One install on one PC literally means that most likely.  It's
> > probably an OEM license they are selling, and those don't include
> > transfer rights.  You get to install it on one PC and that will be
> > it.
> >   If your motherboard goes, you'll be buying a new copy.
> > 
> 
> 
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