Office 2007 Home And Student Allows 3 Installations

An interesting tidbit I came across the other day when I was comparing Office 2007 versions was the the Home and Student release can be installed on multiple machines without having a separate license for each. For my own curiosity I looked this up and sure enough, according to the license agreement, 1.2.a reads:

Licensed Device. You may install one copy of the software on three licensed devices in your household for use by people who reside there. The software is not licensed for use in any commercial, non-profit, or revenue-generating business activities.

This actually makes really good sense from a real world usability standpoint because someone can legally install Office on their desktop, laptop/netbook and another machine they use without having to purchase additional copies. Additionally, if you have several people each with their own machine (living under one roof), you can legally install it on each machine.

Home and Student is very competitively priced and includes Word, Excel, Powerpoint and OneNote. When you break down the cost per machine, this is an incredibly good deal for what you get.

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Pat M
I saw that it said up to 3 installations while I was putting it on the system that my wife uses. The Comm College she works at has gone to Office 2007 and she needed to edit on .docx files. Last month as a back-to-school special, a major online retailer had it for sale at $70. This was a very good price. I think it can still be found at discount at around 90.
I have not used the other installations yet but it’s good to have as an option. One note: installed on a system with Office 2002 in place. It wiped out the 2002 versions of Word and Excel and Powerpoint. But left Access and Frontpage in place.
David K.
Great tip! Reading those licenses that everybody else ignores pays off…
Almost made me feel like a stooge for buying my wife her own copy of Outlook, but I guess it doesn’t include that. Not that I’m not a stooge for it, but…
http://SageCrispin.com Sage Crispin
MSO 2002 supposedly allowed a similar thing-one laptop and one home computer. I don’t even think it was limited to the student version. Anyway I couldn’t make it work. The second version would never activate. It would be good to hear from someone who has actually accomplished this. Were there extra “Microsoft hoops” required?
Dave Allden
I work for the retailed PC World in the UK. Just wanted to also add that if you install it on a computer, then for whatever reason you have to re-install Windows, you can re-install Office Home and Student 07 on that same computer without using an extra license.