MS Office Questions

Got a copy of MS Office (Enterprise 2007) through my Univ. a year ago and put it on my desktop rig after I built it.

When I buy a lappy, I want to throw Office 2007 on there, but my question is can I use the copy that I already have, or would I have to go back and buy a separate one??

Pretty much the only components I use are Excel, Outlook, Publisher and Word.....but it's just so dirt cheap through school, I'd rather waste the time and go back there rather than fork over $100-$150 for the base version (Home/Student) + another $150 for Publisher.

 

You should be able to go back and use the same key. I have Office 2007 professional plus which says was good for three installs, but I've more than that and have had no issues activating.

 

The key code is good for one user. They allow for one desktop and one laptop in the EULA so long as they are both one person's computers.

 

Good deal then, just what I wanted to know

 

That may not apply to your copy which, as you said, you acquired through your school. Microsoft has a lot of different academic licensing schemes, only a few of which actually provide the full equivalent of a retail license for their software.

If you want to know what limits on your use you agreed to when you first installed the software on your desktop, you need to read the specific EULA you were provided with - you won't learn anything useful just by reading the retail EULA, or by having it paraphrased to you by others.

 

For student license, you're allowed to install it on up to 3 devices.

 

Ahh, but this isn't a retail copy of the student/home office edition, but rather a copy of the enterprise edition that was obtained courtesy of an educational institution that, I am sure, entered into a volume licensing deal of some sort with Microsoft in order to be able to provide low(er)-cost versions of MS applications to its students. There is a plethora of different academic licensing schemas available, some of which are, for all intents and purposes, a full in-perpetuity license, and others which basically require that the licensed software be removed if the student ceases to be at least a half-time student at the school that entered into the licensing deal.

EDIT: Microsoft's general set of academic volume licensing options can be viewed here.

 

Thanks for clearing it up, Shyster1. Yeah, the Enterprise license will have different terms than the home and student ones. If it's a regular Enterprise license, then I'm afraid it's only good for one computer. But since it's purchased through an educational institution, then I'm not so sure anymore.