Ah yes, MS at their best ...
Last licensing seminar I was at we were told the following ... If you
install Office on a laptop at work you could install a 2nd copy at home ...
however, if you had a desktop PC at work you NEED a 2nd license for your
desktop at home.
When half the crowd laughed over this the MS licensing guru admitted that it
didn't make much sense. Furthermore "We expect this inconsistency to be
corrected in the future so to be SAFE he recommended that we JUST go ahead
and buy that 2nd license so there would be NO question about whether the
licensing was legal."
Gotta love MS !!!
Also, along the same vein ... if you install Terminal Server at work for say
20 shop floor PC's and maybe 1 home PC or remote office PC ... AND you
decide that it would be great if 1 or 2 or 3 of those folks be able to run
MS-Office via the terminal server ... guess how many licenses you need? If
you said 1 or 2 or 3 ... you're very funny. If you said 20 + 1 = 21 copies
...you're still wrong ... the real # is "how many users sign on via these 21
connections?" ... If you have 3 shop employees on 3 shifts that share one PC
with 3 different signon's then you need one license for each. Do the same
math for all 21 connections and add it up ... Cool huh?
Reality check is that for MS to audit your PC's at work they would need a
search warrant ... to audit your PC's at home they would also need a search
warrant. Does it make sense for MS to spend the legal $'s on getting a
search warrant for home PC's?
Mind you I'm not recommending a course of action here ....
Todd Anderson
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Lewis [mailto:jeff@...]
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 10:11 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] OT: Office Licenses at home & work
What if the work PC is a laptop and the home PC is a Desktop? Are the
going to kick down my door?
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Bruton [mailto:bob@...]
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 9:43 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] OT: Office Licenses at home & work
Only if the PC at home is a laptop.
-----Original Message-----
From: Troy Funte [mailto:tfunte@...]
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 9:08 AM
To: Vantage
Subject: [Vantage] OT: Office Licenses at home & work
Can someone who has attended a Microsoft Licensing seminar tell
me whether
it is OK or not to use the same Microsoft Office License on a PC
at home and
at work? (same person's PC who does work at home and at work)
Troy Funte
Liberty Electronics
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Last licensing seminar I was at we were told the following ... If you
install Office on a laptop at work you could install a 2nd copy at home ...
however, if you had a desktop PC at work you NEED a 2nd license for your
desktop at home.
When half the crowd laughed over this the MS licensing guru admitted that it
didn't make much sense. Furthermore "We expect this inconsistency to be
corrected in the future so to be SAFE he recommended that we JUST go ahead
and buy that 2nd license so there would be NO question about whether the
licensing was legal."
Gotta love MS !!!
Also, along the same vein ... if you install Terminal Server at work for say
20 shop floor PC's and maybe 1 home PC or remote office PC ... AND you
decide that it would be great if 1 or 2 or 3 of those folks be able to run
MS-Office via the terminal server ... guess how many licenses you need? If
you said 1 or 2 or 3 ... you're very funny. If you said 20 + 1 = 21 copies
...you're still wrong ... the real # is "how many users sign on via these 21
connections?" ... If you have 3 shop employees on 3 shifts that share one PC
with 3 different signon's then you need one license for each. Do the same
math for all 21 connections and add it up ... Cool huh?
Reality check is that for MS to audit your PC's at work they would need a
search warrant ... to audit your PC's at home they would also need a search
warrant. Does it make sense for MS to spend the legal $'s on getting a
search warrant for home PC's?
Mind you I'm not recommending a course of action here ....
Todd Anderson
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Lewis [mailto:jeff@...]
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 10:11 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] OT: Office Licenses at home & work
What if the work PC is a laptop and the home PC is a Desktop? Are the
going to kick down my door?
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Bruton [mailto:bob@...]
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 9:43 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] OT: Office Licenses at home & work
Only if the PC at home is a laptop.
-----Original Message-----
From: Troy Funte [mailto:tfunte@...]
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 9:08 AM
To: Vantage
Subject: [Vantage] OT: Office Licenses at home & work
Can someone who has attended a Microsoft Licensing seminar tell
me whether
it is OK or not to use the same Microsoft Office License on a PC
at home and
at work? (same person's PC who does work at home and at work)
Troy Funte
Liberty Electronics
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]