Dual Boot with MS Office 2002 XP Pro

i dont think office has an authorization thing like windows. just install it and they wont be the wiser.

how do you shoot the devil in the back? what happens if you miss? -verbal

Actually they do know - several sources have confirmed (including Mirosoft) that each install after the first requires a "registration" for functionality - if MS detects that the key code has been used once, they prompt with an 800 to call to "get permission to re-install/explain why you are reregistering" (HD crashes, new computer after old Office program has been removed from old computer, etc). I have an older 600 mhz Dell - Dell tech confirms the above "hitch" with the 800 number prompt/requirement.

Dual booting your machine requires two licenses?

God damn.

That really chaps my ahole.

Yeah, there's a way around that. I'm not going to go into how to do it, but there's a way around it.

I never even really gave it much thought. Just another good reason for me to be figuring out Linux, at this point.




Msft: All American.

C@lling it like I c it...

I wish you would go into the work around

a way around OFFICE PA? That I haven't ever heard of.

<i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>

Well I have orifice XP and I have installed it at least 6 times, I have never seen the restriction you are talking about! I have also installed it on a dual boot the same as you have mentioned and never had any problems. You might have an OEM version?

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you must have a corporate version?

<i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>

Yes in fact I do, I forgot that. :smile:

I wonder if isolating the hard drive and booting using the O/S install CD, install orifice on each then see how that goes when the dual boot is re-established, it should work. That is of course you have operating systems on two separate hard drives.

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