Bought a new laptob, want to install Office XP I own, so...

I just got a new laptop w/o office installed. It has Vista and pretty much
nothing else. Years ago I bought Office XP Standard. I want to install this
on my new laptop, but MS put that now legally-repelled one-time product
activation on Office XP. Does anyone know if MS will give me another
activation for this Office XP I OWN so I can use it on my new laptop? Or do
I just have a worthless coaster now? Thanks!

On Wed, 21 May 2008 15:36:08 -0700, toebreaker
<toebreaker@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I just got a new laptop w/o office installed. It has Vista and pretty much
>nothing else. Years ago I bought Office XP Standard. I want to install this
>on my new laptop, but MS put that now legally-repelled one-time product
>activation on Office XP. Does anyone know if MS will give me another
>activation for this Office XP I OWN so I can use it on my new laptop? Or do
>I just have a worthless coaster now? Thanks!

If online activation tells you that you've used up your license, you should also
see a telephone number. Call and explain that you're transferring Office to the
new computer.

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Jay Freedman
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Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit.

If your copy of Office was an OEM version, you can't move it to another
computer. (BTW, you don't own the software, Microsoft is granting you a
license to use it and you agreed to those terms. Seriously, read the license
agreement - and remember that I'm not the person who wrote them.)

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"


"toebreaker" <toebreaker@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6BAC2EB4-BF88-430F-919E-68EA1C853249@microsoft.com...
>I just got a new laptop w/o office installed. It has Vista and pretty much
> nothing else. Years ago I bought Office XP Standard. I want to install
> this
> on my new laptop, but MS put that now legally-repelled one-time product
> activation on Office XP. Does anyone know if MS will give me another
> activation for this Office XP I OWN so I can use it on my new laptop? Or
> do
> I just have a worthless coaster now? Thanks!