Office 2. 01. 3 Gotcha Standalone Products are for One PC Only While Ive tried to steer consumers towards the new Office 3. Home Premium offering because of its tremendous value, the fact remains that some users dont need multiple installs of Office 2. The problem is, the standalone Office 2. Key among them You can only install them on one PC. Ever. Even products that we might previously have labeled as licensing unfriendly, like Windows, technically allow you to remove them from one PC and install them on another. That was certainly the case with previous Office versions, some product versions of which also allowed multiple simultaneous installs on different PCs. Office Home Student 2. Not so with Office 2. In a bid to nudge customers to subscription offerings like Office 3. Home Premium, Microsoft has revised the licensing for standalone Office products. And not in a good way. First, there are no more multi PC installs. So Office Home Student 2. PC, not on three like its predecessor. Second, that single PC license is for the lifetime of the product You cant uninstall any standalone Office 2. PC later. So if your current PC gets replaced, you will need to buy Office again. To be fair, Microsoft is pretty clear about this. When you examine the product pages for individual Office products on Office. Office Home Student 2. PC. You can install and use Office throughout the lifetime of your PC. And the Compare Microsoft Office Products Subscriptions Plans page is likewise clear that the standalone suites, in this case, can be installed on just one PC. However, othersincluding most notably The Age, whose Adam Turner did some serious legwork to uncover the truthhave reported on the more explicit terms that exist in the Office 2. Retail versions of Office 2. OEM versions of Office 2. MS Office 2016 Key Working For Activation is avail here. It is a well known MS Office 2016 Working For Activation. We have build MS Office 2016 Key that wo. Microsoft is making good their promise to remove mandatory product key input during the installation or upgrading process of Windows XP operating system, in a new. Office acquired with a new PC, did not allow for this usage those versions of Office 2. PC on which they arrived. With Office 2. 01. Microsoft is using the OEM licensing terms for retail versions of the product as well, or what is now called a non transferable license or perpetual license. You may not transfer the software to another computer or user, the new license warns. According to Microsoft, each retail copy of Office 2. Once users install the software on a single PC, it can only ever be used on that one device. And no, you cannot install second copy of the software on a portable device, like a laptop, as you could in the past. This is the type of issue that wont really affect too many customers, but will still be a hot button topic for tech enthusiasts. Regardless of the politics, its important for you to know whats happening here. Office 3. 65 Home Premium, at just 9. PCdevice installs of Office 2. Professional, is obviously the way to go for most people. But if you really do wantneed a standalone Office 2.