Office 2003 License question

[mecnet]

Do I need 2 licenses?

We are using Office for a Hyperion project (financial app) and we have dual-boot setup on our notebooks. If we already have Office installed on one boot partition, can we go ahead and use that same Office license on the other boot partition?

Thanks for your help!

[prathapml]

If you are to go precisely by what the EULA says, no you are not allowed to do it with a single license.

You need a second license.

[Marsden]

1. GRANT OF LICENSE. Microsoft grants you the following rights provided that you comply with all terms and conditions of this EULA:

1.1 Installation and use. You may:

(a) install and use a copy of the Software on one personal computer or other device; and

(B) install an additional copy of the Software on a second, portable device for the exclusive use of the primary user of the first copy of the Software.

1.2 Alternative Rights for Storage/Network Use. As an alternative to Section 1.1(a), you may install a copy of the Software on a network storage device, such as a server computer, and allow one access device, such as a personal computer, to access and use that licensed copy of the Software over a private network. You must obtain a license to the Software for each additional device that accesses and uses the Software installed on the network storage device, except as permitted by Section 1.4 of this EULA.

1.3 License Grant for Remote Desktop. You may use remote access technologies, such as the Remote Desktop features in Microsoft Windows or NetMeeting, to access and use your licensed copy of the Software, provided that only the primary user of the device hosting the remote desktop session accesses and uses the Software with a remote access device. These remote desktop rights do not permit you to use the Software on both the device hosting the remote desktop session and the access device at the same time.

Kind of "gray" I think...

[jaclaz]

Kind of "gray" I think...

Yes, I think that the accent should be posed to the fact that in the setup mecnet exposed there is NO CONCURRENT use of the program (and license).

So I would say that one license should be OK.

(my two cents only, of course)

To make sure, you could install it to a "common" partition, then use it by either of the double boot Operating Systems.

jaclaz