How many machines can I install a single copy of Microsoft Office on?

I have Office Small Business 2007 upgrade,3 user license, installed on three laptops at home. One laptop crashed, it's not worth repairing as it's old, and I bought a new laptop. Can I re-load the Office Small Business 2007 upgrade on the new laptop. I've tried to get an answer on Microsoft's website but no luck.
Thanks.

Hi Leo, thanks for the article's information on MSOffice. My verson is "MSoffice 2007 Home and Student" 60 day trial that came with the computer. SOme comments state if the program is OEM, I'm sunk. No swapping is possible. MSoffice2007to full version was converted via online payment and installation 3 days ago, I want to have it on a 2nd desktop if possible. Can be installed using same product key? If so, how do I do it? Or do I have to break down and call MS support?

Thanks.
Aly

hi leo, nice to have a person who have a time to answer people problem.

my question would be,

how many times we can install the MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007 SBE - OEM,

Some say 1 time thru the internet and 5 times u may activate thru a phone call,

can u tell me

many thanks

Hi Leo,

I just got a new laptop---I took my microsoft office disk from my OLD computer and installed it on the new one .

I keep getting the licensing agreement pop up on my new computer. what did i do wrong?

i have lienced office 2003 but i dont know in waht pc i installed that now that pc has destroyed and now i want to install this on new pc but it doesnt install and says running in another machine, so what should i do

I legally bought Microsoft Office 2007 for my Windows XP computer, my computer got a virus, I did a "system restore" on my computer, and it's now virus-free and in the original manufacturing conditions. I've tried repeatedly to re-install Microsoft Office 2007 using the disks, but the software no longer accepts the product key. Does that mean I can no longer install it?

Some Microsoft Office Word software you can download to three computers. Others you can only download to one computer. Read through the End User License Agreement and figure out whether your program is a FPP, a OEM, or MLK. (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/HA102240441033.aspx)

FPP ... 3 computers.
OEM ... 1 computer
MLK ... 1 computer

... according to http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/useterms/

Hope this helps! Don't rely on it totally since I just stumbled upon it.

Amy

With reference to your article: "How many machines can I install a single copy of Microsoft Office on?", Is it safe to assume that the "Currently Published" EULA available from the MS website applies to Office Pro 2003? Maybe I should open the disk and see what the disk copy of the EULA that came with 2003 says. What do you think?

Hey Leo, regretfully your summary:
"Depending on the situation, the number of machines you can install a single copy of Microsoft Office on is unclear."
Is totally correct. So correct that Microsoft themselves can not answer the question. I have been trying to get an answer for over two weeks now. Here is some of the fun I have had:

1) Asked numerous vendors only to get answers anywhere from 1 to 2.
2) Went to the Microsoft web site and downloaded the Office 2007 license agreement, Office2007HNS_MSLT_EN, which reads 3 devices.
3) Contacted Microsoft only to be told by them that I never replied back to an email they sent (Note: this was their FIRST reply to me. Wrote back and waited over a week, no reply. Wrote again threatening to escalate the problem. Got a reply the next day that said it depended on which Office 2007 product I had. According to the rep Home and Student can be loaded on three computers and the others only two.
4) Went back out to the Microsoft web site via a search on Office 2007 License and the we page where it states this in question #18, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927921, does NOT answer the question but sends you off to the Privacy page which has NO information at all about the number of computers you can load Office 2007 on.
5) I am currently in the process of once again asking the Microsoft rep via email to explain the Inconsistency between the license agreement on their site and his reply. If I ever get anything concrete, (in the form of a legal license agreement and not just a reps opinion) I will try to get back to you.

I'm back! Got the reply back from Microsoft today and here is what they said:

"All the versions of Office 2007 can only be installed on two computers apart from Office Home & Student 2007.

I have already sent the feedback regarding the change in the license agreement to my supervisor & the web design team & soon the changes will reflect on the License Agreement."

Seems they were unaware of the discrepancy in the online version of the license agreement.

But here is something that will help your "viewers". The best way to obtain the license agreement is to view it directly via their copy of the software, (if it is loaded). In Office 2007 Microsoft "hid" the About box which gives you access to the license agreement. To find it do the following:

1) click on the round Office button at the left top of the window
2) click on the ???? Options button at the bottom right of this pop up window. ???? is the name of the application you opened, Ie Word, Excel, Access, etc.
3)In the left hand column at the bottom, click on Resources
4)On the Resources page on the right hand side the last entry should be About. Click on the About button to the right
5)On the about screen around 2/3 down on the page click on the blue text that reads View the MICROSOFT SOFTWARE LICENSE TERMS and there is your software license agreement which will tell you how many "devices" (computers) you can load your version of Office 2007 on.

I know it is not the easiest process but it is the most exact. Hope this helps everyone.