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Office XP on Vista

  • 22-08-2008 3:25am
    #1
    macgowan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 55 ✭✭


    Can Microsoft Office XP Professional run on Vista?

    And is it possible to install Office on a new computer when I have installed it on an old computer a few years ago? Or is it necessary to buy a new copy?


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  • #2
    MunsterCycling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,864 ✭✭✭MunsterCycling


    Depends on the licence you got from M$, if its a Student etc licence then you can put it on 3 PCs but normally you'd have to buy a new copy to be licence compliant

    MC


  • #3
    Explosive_Cornflake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,133 ✭✭✭Explosive_Cornflake


    MunsterCycling wrote: »
    Depends on the licence you got from M$, if its a Student etc licence then you can put it on 3 PCs but normally you'd have to buy a new copy to be licence compliant

    MC
    But if he ensures it's no longer on the old machine, and once it was not a OEM copy (came with the machine, and is tied to it, like WinXP/Vista in most residental machines) it should be ok.

    If the above is no go, try OpenOffice.org, should be every bit the same as Office XP, but is free and about 100mb download.


  • #4
    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,260 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jonathan


    macgowan wrote: »
    Can Microsoft Office XP Professional run on Vista?
    Yup. I run office 2000 on vista no problem.


  • #5
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,567 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    macgowan wrote: »
    Can Microsoft Office XP Professional run on Vista?
    yes
    Or is it necessary to buy a new copy?
    as posted before
    you can MOVE a non-OEM copy to another machine

    the student version may allow installing on three pc's but only if you are entitled to use it


  • #6
    macgowan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 55 ✭✭macgowan


    Ok thanks. I don't think it's Student... as in it has Access and stuff...
    But if he ensures it's no longer on the old machine...

    Not actually planning on removing it from the old machine... Do they actually verify this somehow?

    And is OpenOffice really just as good as MS in virtually every aspect? I would be using it almost exclusively for Word, so Powerpoint, etc aren't particularly important.


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  • #7
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,567 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    macgowan wrote: »
    Ok thanks. I don't think it's Student... as in it has Access and stuff...
    the box/license would tell you, if you don't have them then you can't anyway


    Not actually planning on removing it from the old machine... Do they actually verify this somehow?
    not at this time , but they have the ability to do this when you use officeupdate or microsotupdate and the license agreement gives them lots of legal rights against you. IMHO the poor copy protection on older versions is more or less entrapment BUT you are breaking laws so it's a no-no.
    And is OpenOffice really just as good as MS in virtually every aspect? I would be using it almost exclusively for Word, so Powerpoint, etc aren't particularly important.
    the OO interface is closer to office XP than office 2007 is. Office XP won't read files from OO or office 2007 unless you change the default "save as" format or download an update. OO reads broken msoffice files that msoffice can't.

    unless you are using very advanced features or things like tables that get broken when you change versions of msoffice then openoffice would do


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