Vista and old Office
Someone may got question if they buy Windows Vista and want to install previous version of MS Office (like Office 2000, XP, or 2003 rather than 2007), what can they do? The question is upon licensing rather than compatible or system support issue. David Overton of Microsoft UK Small business team have solution for you, which summarized below:
- If you have the Home and Student (was the Student and Teacher) Edition then this can be installed on 3 computers in the same household.
- If you have a previous “Full Packaged Product” – the pretty box you bought at a retailers – version of the product then this can be removed from one computer and installed on a new computer. It can only be installed on one computer at any time.
- If your software is provided as part of a volume license agreement then you can install on a new computer or other computers, but if you change the number of computers that it is installed on you may have to pay more for the extra usage.
- If you have neither of these then you have an OEM copy – this is provided and supported by the people who supplied your computer and part of the license provision is that it belongs to that computer only and can not be transferred anywhere else.
More guide if you want Office 2007 and Office 2003 co-exist on the same Windows machine, please visit this entry .