

It will become more and more susceptible to hacking as time progresses. It is no longer being supported AT all by MS. I have a need for the 3rd license on another desktop computer and don't want to lose it to the notebook with 2 operating systems.I agree with Palcouk, buying a copy of 2010 for more than $10 or $20 is a bad buy. Hard drive to an SSD in between the 2 operating systems installations.

Will the installation on the Windows 8 partition use up an additional office license (as noted I have 1 unused remaining) or will the installation detect that it is the same notebook computer and not increment the count? I ask this since I changed the

Still has Office 2010 originally installed and still working and I now also want to install Office 2010 on the new Windows 8 Pro disk partition on that same notebook. The rest of the notebook is unchanged.Īlso on the notebook I have now installed, on a separate SSD partition, Windows 8 Professional and set it up as a dual-boot so that I can run either Windows 7 Pro or Windows 8 Pro depending on my needs when I visit a customer. On the notebook, I have replaced the hard drive with an SSD drive for greater speed and performed a disk image backup and restore of the Windows 7 operating system onto it so I did not have to re-register anything and therefore no changes to license counts.Īs I understand it, a disk replacement doesn't trigger license changes. I have now installed 2nd license of the 3-pack on a desktop computer on Windows 8 Pro. I had previously installed 1 license on an HP notebook computer running Windows 7 64-bit Pro. My question is slightly different than those posed similarly by others so am asking for further clarity. I have a question that is slightly different than some of the others posted here and am therefore asking for assistance.
