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> "Beth Melton" <bmelton[ at ]mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:OOZXvEraJHA.4732[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> "LVTravel" <none[ at ]nothere.com> wrote in message
>> news:unmTsxqaJHA.2124[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
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>>> I haven't had any difficulty installing and activating on two machines
>>> concurrently which leads me to believe that the retail version of the
>>> license agreement is the binding one or at least the one MS looked at
>>> when the product first came out. I don't know why the text version of
>>> the EULA is different than the one which shows once the software has
>>> been installed. There are 3 different versions of the EULA on the actual
>>> H & S install disk. One is in a plain .txt file and the other two are in
>>> compiled HTML Help files named EULA10O.CHM and EULA10R.CHM where they
>>> are Office 10 OEM and Office 10 Retail EULAs.
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>> I've noticed they include the EULA for both the OEM and Retail versions
>> these days. It's up to the purchaser to determine if they need to follow
>> the OEM or Retail EULA. The way to determine that is to look at the
>> Product ID in Help/About. OEM installations contain "OEM" in the Product
>> ID.
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>> Beth Melton
>> Microsoft Office MVP
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https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton>> What is a Microsoft MVP?
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs>>
>> Guides for the Office 2007 Interface:
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http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/HA102295841033.aspx>>
>>
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> Beth, I agree that it is up to the end user to determine what EULA they
> need to abide by but with so many different versions of licenses, i.e.,
> trial, preinstalled OEM, preinstalled Office ready, etc. many people can't
> determine which license is appropriate for that user. An example to that
> is the thread started by Matt LXIX on 12-30 [ at ] 11:44 AM and the posts that
> followed. I believe that I steered the OP correctly in that thread as I
> have seen others with the exact issue that could not use the MLK license
> with a retail CD.
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> I wish that Microsoft (and I have requested from MS such be posted
> somewhere) would publish a complete and accurate list of all the different
> license situations and the various ways of getting those various
> licenses. There is no clear cut answer as to whether a MLK license will
> activate an installed trial and I have had one person advise that they
> activated and had a different person say they couldn't activate under the
> same situations. This is similar to the activated trial software (by
> purchase), some think that the software can be transferred and/or
> installed onto two different computers and others think that it is
> equivalent to an OEM purchase. I even requested that one poster respond
> with a copy of the email (without identifying information) she received
> after purchasing a conversion of a trial but never got the text of the
> eula or email from her.
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> It is incumbent upon Microsoft to provide clear, concise information on
> their EULAs if people are expected to abide by them. Placing three
> different EULAs on a specific install disk that can only be installed one
> way is not the way to be clear and concise. Enough ranting for now.