Really Confused with Microsoft Software

inspectorperez

J_B said:

I bought a 5 user license off eBay - was rather expensive though ...... £1.99

I also bought a cheapie like that J_B for Microsoft Office 2016 which works absolutely fine.

What I have noticed however is that it does not seem to get updated on the monthly Windows Patch Tuesday, whereas my older Office 2010 suite does. I suspect that this may be something to do with the Microsoft licensing arrangements.

I'm not really bothered TBH, but I did just wonder whether anyone else had noticed this

Terrysdelight

J_B said:

I bought a 5 user license off eBay - was rather expensive though ...... £1.99

So, if I buy a license from Ebay, will I then be able to download the software?

J_B

Terrysdelight said:

J_B said:

I bought a 5 user license off eBay - was rather expensive though ...... £1.99

So, if I buy a license from Ebay, will I then be able to download the software?

Well, it worked for me but it did stipulate that I uninstalled any other versions of Office first.

stragglebod

Terrysdelight said:

I'm looking into buying this software for my own computer.  Apparently it is a license for one machine only.
How does this work if I install on my desktop, but then do some work on my laptop at home, but I want to use the files which are on my desktop - can I access my files and still use them on my laptop.   Or do I have to buy two licenses?

If you save the documents to your Onedrive then you can use the free Office online in your browser on the laptop to edit them.

Neil_Jones

inspectorperez said:

J_B said:

I bought a 5 user license off eBay - was rather expensive though ...... £1.99

I also bought a cheapie like that J_B for Microsoft Office 2016 which works absolutely fine.

What I have noticed however is that it does not seem to get updated on the monthly Windows Patch Tuesday, whereas my older Office 2010 suite does. I suspect that this may be something to do with the Microsoft licensing arrangements.

I'm not really bothered TBH, but I did just wonder whether anyone else had noticed this

Office 2016 and later (including 365) do not update through Windows Update.  They are pushed through Click-To-Run.

Office 2007 and 2010 (and in some circumstances 2013 and 2016) would have got all their updates through Windows Update (if you had Microsoft Update set up, and not just the standard Windows Update).

tazwhoever

Terrysdelight said:

J_B said:

I bought a 5 user license off eBay - was rather expensive though ...... £1.99

So, if I buy a license from Ebay, will I then be able to download the software?

£1.99 is cheap from eBay but it's fake in most cases. People pay money and receive an email. When it's download, the activation key doesn't work. Rubbish...if it works, you're lucky!

Jon_01

tazwhoever said:

Terrysdelight said:

J_B said:

I bought a 5 user license off eBay - was rather expensive though ...... £1.99

So, if I buy a license from Ebay, will I then be able to download the software?

£1.99 is cheap from eBay but it's fake in most cases. People pay money and receive an email. When it's download, the activation key doesn't work. Rubbish...if it works, you're lucky!

Very true. This used to work, I'm running Office 2019 from the start of this year and the key worked fine.

But, I bought 2 keys for Office 2016 and 1 for Office 2019 last week and none of them work and the sellers accounts were closed within 24 hours...

Terrysdelight

I noticed that all the people selling them have accounts with no transactions against them - ie zero trades.

Terrysdelight

I downloaded Office 2019 Pro Plus, did it from email.  All up and running well.   Feel much happier with this product - I can now ignore all those 'install and upgrade 365' messages etc :-)

Jon_01

Terrysdelight said:

I noticed that all the people selling them have accounts with no transactions against them - ie zero trades.

Ebay really don't like anyone selling software keys, so they close the accounts when they see them. That's why all the sellers have zero feedback, their acc is closed and they just open a new one.