Professional Plus 2013 terms of licence, linked to 1 device?

d750 · May 3, 2013

Hi

With the Home Use Program with my company, i was able to buy office professional plus 2013 for a quite low price, and now i have questions on the licence.

I found on google that office professional plus 2013 is linked to only one device, and if i change my computer one time, or maybe even changing the motherboard, i will not be able to use office pro plus 2013 anymore

but here
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forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/39377-Office-2013-Repository i can read
Office 2013 Professional Plus
-Maximum Supported Users - 25 - Devices Per User - 5.

so is it 5 devices? If i only install it on my only computer, i should be able to install it 5 times if i do 5 change of computer?

What if i don't change the hardware but just install windows 7 again? or windows 8?

does this topic can allow to pass this by installing a volume edition ? How do i know if i have a volume or a retail edition?
Code:
forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/39018-Convert-Office-2013-ProPlus-installer-from-retail-to-volume-%28by-hand%29
thanks

edit: i was still looking, and come on this
Code:
pcworld.com/article/2030120/microsoft-caves-to-office-2013-licensing-backlash.html
Now the Office 2013 licensing works like you’d expect it should. Purchasing the license grants you the right to install the software on a single PC. If that PC breaks, or gets lost or stolen, or you upgrade and replace it with a new one, you can install Office 2013 on the new PC. You can also sell or transfer the license to another user. The primary requirement under this license is that the Office 2013 software can only exist in one place, and be installed on one computer at any given time.
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it look like it should be ok to install it on a new computer, if i change my computer in some time, can someone confirm this?

thanks

(sorry for the bad links, i can't post any link as i don't have more than 20 posts)

EFA11 · May 3, 2013

That quote sounds like how I understand it. One instance of the software can be installed at a time, moving it from one computer to another is irrelevant as long as it is uninstalled from one and reinstalled on another.. And if you would like to post links you can use the # button in the editor and place the link between the code tags.

d750 · May 4, 2013

TR0JAN said: ↑

That's RETAIL talk. Different when it comes to VOLUME licensing.
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hello

could you clarify please?
on the wiki of office 2013
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_2013
The original license agreement for retail editions of Microsoft Office 2013 was different from the license agreements of retail editions of previous versions of Microsoft Office in two significant ways.[32] The first of these was that the software could no longer be transferred to another computer. In previous versions of Office, this restriction applied only to OEM editions; retail Office license agreements allowed uninstalling from one computer to install on another computer.[32]

Digitally downloaded copies of Office were also said to be permanently locked to that PC's hardware, preventing it from being transferred to any other computing device. Should the buyer have wished to use Office 2013 on a different computer, or if they later became unable to use the computing device that the original license was downloaded to (e.g. hardware became inoperable due to malfunction) then a completely new, full-priced copy of Office 2013 would have to have been purchased to replace the prior one.[32] Microsoft stated that this change was related to the pirating of Office that has been rampant for years, worldwide (often committed by everyday people who claimed that Office's relatively high retail price justified their illegally copying it for friends/relatives' free use).[33] However, many commentators saw this change as an effort to forcibly move its entire customer base from a one-time-purchase business model, to Office 365 and its new subscription-based business model (in which users must keep paying Microsoft, on a monthly or other periodic basis, for Office to remain functional on their PC).[34][35][36] The legality of this move, particularly in Europe, has been questioned.[37]

However, on March 6, 2013, Microsoft announced that equivalent transfer rights to those in the Office 2010 retail license agreements are applicable to retail Office 2013 copies effective immediately. Transfer of license from one computer to another owned by the same user is now allowed every 90 days, except in the case of hardware failure, in which the license may be moved sooner. The first user of the product is now also allowed to transfer it to another user.[38] This change is to be rolled out to the activation servers over a period of about three months, during which phone activation can be used instead.[39]

The second difference, which remains in the updated licensing agreement, is that the software can be installed on only one computer. In previous versions of Office, this restriction also applied only to OEM editions; retail Office license agreements allowed installing the product on two or three computers, depending on the edition.[32]
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what is the difference between retail and volume, from license point of view? Does volume have more limite to transfer the license to another computer or not? I have difficulty to find info on that.

Also, i still wonder how can i know if i have a retail or a volume license, i have bought it through home use program, microsoft website i guess.

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