Does your copy of Office 2013 die with your computer? • Hacker News Board

Re: Does your copy of Office 2013 die with your computer?

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 7:38 AM UTC

gizmo686 wrote: post #26

nwh wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I imagine it will be like some forms of DRM. If you change even a hard disk, the entire copy is invalidated, as it's a 'different' computer.

I've had the unpleasent experience of within 1 week having my mother board replaced twice, and my wireless chip and keyboard replaced once. (And my bios service tag not properly reset after one of the motherboards). Through all of this, Windows somehow got the idea that I was pirating it (okay, pretty clear where it got this idea from). The license key that came with the CD did not work. After several boot cycles and…

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Re: Does your copy of Office 2013 die with your computer?

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Post by wycx » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 7:56 AM UTC

aarongolliver wrote: post #22

This is stupid. There is a deactivate button on their website. It literally took me a minute to find it the first time I as looking for it. I've been able to deactivate and reactivate on more than two computers. The author should have done some research before spreading FUD. http://i.imgur.com/Ei5wx1V.png

That image refers to Office 365 University, which is a subscription product. The article is not refering to Office 365 subscriptions, other than:

"Depending on your needs, you might find a single outright copy of Office Home & Student 2013 is more economical than an Office 365 subscription -- but not if you can't keep using it after you next upgrade your computer."

Re: Does your copy of Office 2013 die with your computer?

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Post by geraldchan » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 8:21 AM UTC

thoughtcriminal wrote: post #11

That said, I subscribed to the online MS Office suite (w/ SkyDrive and some other goodies) a few days ago and I'm impressed. The Microsoft user experience is pretty slick nowadays. I've even switched from Google to Bing and Chrome to Internet Explorer for a month. At first the "newness" of it all was a bit jarring, like navagating an alien landscape, but after only a few days I don't think I'm ever going back. Do you…

I tried this too and found the experience sucked. Microsoft just can't get its head out of the 90's. They still don't get the Internet. I think they never recovered after that.

Re: Does your copy of Office 2013 die with your computer?

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Post by wanion » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 7:32 PM UTC

pixl97 wrote: post #12

runT1ME wrote: post #3

What if you install Office on a VM? Can you run the VM from multiple machines? Can you move the VM from your old computer to your newer computer?

You 'Can'. The issue is Microsoft doesn't think you should (I believe you have to use a VL). As for Windows VMs, I've found if you keep what is presented to Windows stable, it doesn't know the difference. Keep the MAC address on the network card static (this means you can't run two copies on the same network at the same time, which by the license you shouldn't anyway). After running on a number of different processor…

Yep, Windows can tell if it's running inside a VM. In Windows 8 you can see this in the Task Manager (Performance -> CPU). In the lower right it'll say something along the lines of:

Virtual processors: 2

Virtual machine: Yes