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Can you legally put Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 on two different computers?

Asked by missingbite (7531points) November 20th, 2008

My sister bought Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 home edition and I want to put it on both of our laptops. Is this possible or do we need two copies. They are family computers.

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queenzboulevard's avatar

My disc had three uses on it. I just gave away the third use yesterday. Here’s the only thing though. I used my first use obviously, but the second person I gave it to couldn’t use it at the same time as me when we were on the same internet connection. It would open the program and say ‘you cannot use this program because it is already in use by _____.’ So what I would do is turn Airport off and then use it lol. I asked this a while ago you can take a look at it.

lindseyky's avatar

each disk has 3 uses on it.

fireside's avatar

@queenz – The three license uses are only for workstations on the same network.
If you got an incompatibility error, it was most likely because you both used the same product key. We had that in our office and it was a real pain until I got all the stations configured because nobody kept track of the key they used so I had to sort it out.

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