Failed product activation for Office 2007

davb

I assume you have the home and student edition of MS Office, which is the one that gives 3 licences. AFAIK the M$ position is that the important thing is whether you have a RETAIL or OEM version of Office. If it's retail, then you should have no problem installing on new computers, as long as you don't exceed three at once. But if you have an OEM version, M$ consider this as non-transferable - so once it's installed on a particular computer that's it (this applies to all M$ OEM products). That's why retail versions cost more than OEM.