Thread: MSOffice 2013 EULA ties license to one assembly forever?
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Old 03-06-2013, 12:03 PM   #41
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Originally Posted by VydorScope View Post
Not any more...

Microsoft reverses course, says Office 2013 licenses can now be transferred to new PCs

http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/06/m...-transferable/
This still sounds restrictive:

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You can't transfer the license more than once every 90 days unless there's a hardware failure, and you still can't have the software on more than one computer at the same time.
Microsoft borrowed this boilerplate language from the Xbox 360 system, a dangerously unreliable game console. Anyway, how can you prove hardware failure?
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