Retail Copies of Office 2013 Are Tied To a Single Computer Forever

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @10:36AM from the just-what-users-were-clamoring-for dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With the launch of Office 2013 Microsoft has seen fit to upgrade the terms of the license agreement, and it's not in favor of the end user. It seems installing a copy of the latest version of Microsoft's Office suite of apps ties it to a single machine. For life. On previous versions of Office it was a different story. The suite was associated with a 'Licensed Device' and could only be used on a single device. But there was nothing to stop you uninstalling Office and installing it on another machine perfectly legally. With that option removed, Office 2013 effectively becomes a much more expensive proposition for many."

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Advice? by Roskolnikov · 2013-02-13 10:40 · Score: -1, Troll

install it in a virtual machine, run it from there, this is lame.

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OpenOffice is also tied to a computer for ever by Alain+Williams · 2013-02-13 11:56 · Score: -1, Troll

you just download and install a new copy on your new machine. There is no point in bothering to uninstall the old one. Which is better from this point of view ?