Stick with office 2007 for now until a proper hack is worked out cause KMS stuff is not entirely ummm reliable... I think the best one was the MSO.DLL hack which activated it permenantly but I haven't played around with 2007 like at all... its not that I don't have faith in the KMS thing it just ain't permenant....
I don't think the MSO.dll hack is permanent... a recent update killed it. There isn't even a MSO.DLL file in the office directory anymore, and if you had the mso.dll hack previously it just throws the 'installed for another user' error.
The best way for Office is to use a volume licence version (Enterprise, Professional Plus) and a genuine Product key. This will run without limit and won't flag Genuine advantage. If you work at or go to school at a place using one of those products, most likely you can pull a genuine key from a machine. Next best way would be to use a generated or blacklisted product key with one of the above products. It will fail genuine advantage but that only prevents you from downloading templates. There's no ongoing nags and you don't even have to validate Office. The next method that's fairly straight forward, and probably won't satisfy genuine advantage, and should work on any edition: Code: Open Notepad as administrator "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE12\Office Setup Controller\Proof.en\Proof.XML" scroll down to the the bottom. You should see lines like this... </Feature> <Feature Id="SetupXmlFiles" Cost="1248"> <OptionRef Id="AlwaysInstalled"/> </Feature> Change the line AlwaysInstalled with neverInstalled retaining the quotes Save file There's this MSO.dll "hack" but yeah, you can't update because inherently updates replace office files. Imagine that.
many thanks to Worldwide2010 the key worked just fine. anyone have the idea how many PCs i can activate with a single key before it will become blacklisted? ) (i need about 6 PC to be activated)
Except then you will always be stuck using a stinky old version of a rather large shared library (16MB), defeating the purpose of updating, let alone the potential risk of running with varying versions of office components.