That title is more catchy, so people think they invented the wheel It's just the same as a normal dual boot install, nothing special. For HWID or oemm activated systems it's even incorrect at the "activation" paragraph.
I have a main system that has 6-10k drives Plus over 8TB space on 5 SATA3 drives Plus 1-500GB SSD All running on a Asus Z97K with i7-4790k 16GB-2400Mhz Ram No small toy.
I like your Alienware laptop. What model is that though? Perhaps the Office 2016 installer you are using is not good. You can try it in other Windows operating system version to know if is it problem architecture (32-bits being installed on 64-bits system). In most cases 32-bits Office used to work on 64-bits OS. I would advise you simply download the file from other trusted site.
MSFT still advises (and the retail version of office 2016 will auto-install x86 on both x86 and x64 windows) to install x86 versions because of possible incompatibility with (3rd party) addons. x64 office is only advised when maintaining large databases.
It is M17X-R4 that has been upgraded to the max with 32GB ram and GTX 675M It would not install because of the build and that is all.
Wow! That is a beast! 32GB of RAM on a laptop with GTX 675M GPU. You don't need any upgrade for the next 4 years or more. I never knew Office 2016 was not compatible with this build. Is anybody else having the same issue with Office here? I am surprised to see that you are having issue with it. Office 2007 runs very well on it because I am using it so to speak and I don't understand why Office 2016 won't.
It's a long story but in short he had activated Insider Preview copy, now back on 1607 Read back through posts
Oh, I see! He should find a way to fix it. If I can remember correctly Office 2016 is still in evaluation phase. I will do that right away and read through all posts related to the discussion to have better understanding of the causes of the issue with the Office 2016 in this build
I don't mean activation that comes with Insider Preview, I mean Windows is activated with Insider Preview. Real Activation He has screenshot in this thread
All home/pro windows, insider and non insider editions activate by the same rules, they all either need HWID, oemm or legit key to activate. Insider activation has been disabled many builds ago (appr. 1 year).
He formatted, nothing else on computer, put Insider Preview on alone, then activated it with free upgrade key you gave him
You are correct on that statement. I quite I agree with the point you made there. To extrapolate something interesting from it the Insider Preview Builds (being the operating systems we are discussing about) depend on the activation for the operating system to function properly just in the same way the Insider Builds depend on the expiry date to stop functioning properly. Both of them play their various roles which sometimes look as though they are interdependent on each other, whereas the activation doesn't depend on the expiry date of the Insider Preview Builds as much as it seems. There is a nuance there but it is a bit tricky - if one doesn't take good notice of it in time.