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Microsoft Restores Transfer Rights To Office 2013

Posted by Soulskill on from the putting-right-what-once-went-wrong dept.

New submitter gewalker writes "Bowing to significant unfriendly customer feedback regarding its new 'no transfer' license for Office 2013, Microsoft has reconsidered and will now allow Office 2013 licenses to be transferred between computers. Actual license language will not be reflected for a few months for shipped products, but Microsoft will allow transfer of license effective immediately. Calls to customer support will be necessary, as the activation servers won't be updated for a few months."

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  1. Re:Great by Looker_Device · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ah, Clippy--the Jar Jar Binks of software.

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  2. Re:Great by sdnoob · · Score: 5, Funny

    and it will be called..

    wait for it...

    WINDOWS RETRO

  3. Re:Great by symbolset · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh, I adore Metro. It's just the thing to catapult Microsoft operating systems into the kind of market share they deserve.

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  4. I'm not a car person... by QilessQi · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...can someone explain that post using a computer analogy?

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