February 16, 201313 yr 'If your computer dies, so does your Office license,' says licensing guru; move seen as prod to adopt subscription-based Office 365” Microsoft yesterday confirmed that a retail copy of Office 2013 is permanently tied to the first PC on which it's installed, preventing customers from deleting the suite from one machine they own and installing it on another. Office 2013 retail licensing change ties suite to specific PC forever Quite a change from Office 2010! What else will they think of next? Ramón. Time, is the one thing no one can buy.
February 16, 201313 yr Quite a change from Office 2010! What else will they think of next? Whatever it is, you can be pretty sure we won't like it....... Now they just have to make windows incompatable with the older versions of office people will try to use instead. Open office gets a new lease on life! We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
February 16, 201313 yr Well they will ultimately have to adjust to what the market will bear. For Christmas I got my wife a new laptop that is Windows 8 based. Not as bad as we feared to adjust and navigate ourselves around Win 8. She really really really wanted Office 2003 on the new laptop but we were out of licensing rights. So then we went to mass and prayed our Office 2007 would install. The prayers paid off. Our three-license Office 2007 had been installed over the years on four different computers, but somehow the MS system recognized that if was only still active on two and allowed the installation. Perhaps I should now buy and shelve a multi-license copy of 2010. I understand that following their institution of similar restrictive licensing that Adobe's revenue from upgrades is off considerably. Frank Patton Corsair 5000D Airflow Case; MSI B650 Tomahawk MOB; Ryzen 7 7800 X3D CPU; ASUS RTX 4080 Super; NZXT 360mm liquid cooler; Corsair Vengeance 64GB DDR5 4800 MHz RAM; RMX850X Gold PSU;; ASUS VG289 4K 27" Display; Honeycomb Alpha & Bravo, Crosswind 3's w/dampener. Former USAF meteorologist & ground weather school instructor. AOPA Member #07379126 "I will never put my name on a product that does not have in it the best that is in me." - John Deere
February 16, 201313 yr Office 2010, at least the business and Pro editions, also used to let you install on both a laptop and a desktop with one licence. Office 2013 is one licence per machine for all editions. What else will they think of next? They want everyone to sign up for the Office 365 yearly subscription.
February 16, 201313 yr I think I will just get a pentium with Windows 98, Office 98, Flight Simulator 98 and just stay there forever. I bet I would be just as productive anyways. :lol: Matthew Kane I'm Dyslexic, what's an error to you is not to me
February 16, 201313 yr They obviously believe they have the ultimate product. They should be careful. Someone may do to them what they did to Lotus. But then, they have the market cornered with their operating systems. They crawl out of a certain human orifice where the sun doesn't shine easily.
February 16, 201313 yr They obviously believe they have the ultimate product. They should be careful. Someone may do to them what they did to Lotus. But then, they have the market cornered with their operating systems. They crawl out of a certain human orifice where the sun doesn't shine easily. Well they should be triply careful. Open office does almost all the same stuff arguably just as well and is free....... We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
February 16, 201313 yr Happy 2010 user here, after getting the upgrade from the 2007, which was after getting the upgrade from 2003, which was after getting it cheaper on business terms. Erm, I think I'll stay away from 2013 then. Must admit, looking at how I use the programs, means some 1% of their features, I don't think I will miss much anyway. :blush: Side note. Is there already some soft which is bound to your genetic code or something? I would totally want that! Wait, Facebook says I have to like something. Will be right back.
February 16, 201313 yr Bet not many people know this . I use Open Office, can be reinstalled as many times as you like, and free. Also a lot of other office stuff out there, who needs Microsoft office? Echofox
February 16, 201313 yr Bet not many people know this . I use Open Office, can be reinstalled as many times as you like, and free. Also a lot of other office stuff out there, who needs Microsoft office? Echofox +1 for sure. Always remember to Find Your FUN! -Bob
February 16, 201313 yr Adding to Echofox' post. An overview about the alternatives. http://www.pcworld.c...oft-office.html
February 16, 201313 yr Don't buy anything from Microsoft after they quit flight sim development, but I got to say that was a sleazy business model. Simmerhead - Making the virtual skies unsafe since 1987!
February 16, 201313 yr But which soft should we buy then? Last time I looked, not many devs actually offer flight sims and some office soft. :mellow: Not to forget the more serious note that I'm actually happy that MS did run flight sims for decades. Well, perception. ^_^
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