New Laptop / Office Home & Student 2013

[beeza1]

I need to replace my 4 year old laptop, when I bought it I got Office Home & Student 2013 at the same time, it's supposed to be a "one user, lifetime licence", I hardly ever use it apart from writing the odd letter and opening a document that needs "word".
Does anyone know if I will be able to install Office 2013 on my new laptop, which will be Windows 10? I still have the activation code.
I don't want to go to the expense of buying a new version of Office if I don't need to.
I seem to recall there was a free version, compatible with XP, but can't remember what it was called.

 

[GusB]

Your existing copy should be okay to install on a new machine, as long as it's only on one machine, but if it doesn't work you could try LibreOffice, or OpenOffice which can be downloaded free of charge.

 

[Lrd]

Just use Google Drive and Docs, perfect for the occasional use.

 

[D365]

I don't think even Microsoft would be greedy enough to sell you a licence that would tie you to the first machine that the software is installed to...

 

[DynamicSpirit]

I need to replace my 4 year old laptop, when I bought it I got Office Home & Student 2013 at the same time, it's supposed to be a "one user, lifetime licence", I hardly ever use it apart from writing the odd letter and opening a document that needs "word".
Does anyone know if I will be able to install Office 2013 on my new laptop, which will be Windows 10? I still have the activation code.
I don't want to go to the expense of buying a new version of Office if I don't need to.
I seem to recall there was a free version, compatible with XP, but can't remember what it was called.

This article seems to indicate that you can install on the new machine (although that was not always the case):

Effective immediately, customers who purchase (or have already purchased) the
Office Home and Student 2013, Office Home and Business 2013, Office Professional
2013 suites, or any of the standalone Office 2013 applications can move the
software to another computer once every 90 days.

 

[dgl]

Should be fine especially if it is from physical media. It used to be that OEM licences could not be transferred to another machine by the EU changed that and now OEM licences can be transferred but in theory only with a piece of hardware. My old copy od Office XP installed and activated fine on my new laptop.

 

[Bletchleyite]

Note that to install on a second machine, unless you have a multi-machine licence as some of them are, you need to deinstall before you reinstall (or call Microsoft for another key).

 

[ComUtoR]

I have never once purchased a copy of Microsoft Office.

I recently traded my PC for a Laptop. The PC was XP and had a copy of office. I setup the new Laptop and it asked me for my live mail to use as my login to setup windows 8. I downloaded and installed office 365 thingy and stuck in my live mail. Word/Excel/Powerpoint/Publisher/One Note All full versions.

Then my laptop died a horrible death (since resurrected). I got a new laptop and setup up office again under Windows 10. I was sent a renewal reminder for my Office sub and Office renewed without any cost.

 

[CC 72100]

Note that to install on a second machine, unless you have a multi-machine licence as some of them are, you need to deinstall before you reinstall (or call Microsoft for another key).

Any option if the initial machine that its installed on, sort of, died?

I had office 2010 (or possibly 13) but was then superseded through my uni account who let us download office for free. For a while I then had 2 copies of office on that PC, we'll call it PC 1

Come summer 2016 and PC 1 gets fried. I purchase (sorry, the insurer purchases) PC 2 and my uni subscription still carries on 1 year after graduation (to be fair they did say they will keep our IT account active for a little while.)

However, Uni's generosity has come to an end, so the licence has been revoked (fair enough). Unfortunately though, I can't think of a way to get back the original copy installed on PC 1 to put it on PC 2. Unfortunately when doing the claim after the frazzling of my electronic devices, I didn't take into account paid-for software on them, as I'd became so used to using the university 'loaned' licence.

 

[najaB]

Any option if the initial machine that its installed on, sort of, died?

TBH, with prices starting from £5/mth I would just get a new Office 365 subscription.

 

[Bletchleyite]

Any option if the initial machine that its installed on, sort of, died?

Yes, you can phone Microsoft and provided you have a decent excuse (knackered PC) and you don't do it too often they will issue you a new key.

 

[Puffing Devil]

TBH, with prices starting from £5/mth I would just get a new Office 365 subscription.

TBH with prices starting at £5 month, my first port of call would be Google Docs or Libre Office/OpenOffice.

 

[D365]

TBH with prices starting at £5 month, my first port of call would be Google Docs or Libre Office/OpenOffice.

Aye, I've got better things to do with £60 than give it to a company like Microsoft, even if I have recently become a fan of OneDrive.

 

[najaB]

Aye, I've got better things to do with £60 than give it to a company like Microsoft, even if I have recently become a fan of OneDrive.

That's why it is worth the £5 - 1TB of online storage.

 

[D365]

That's why it is worth the £5 - 1TB of online storage.

The 6GB file limit makes it rather awkward to do the kind of backups I like...

Maybe I'm just used to having it for free as a student!

 

[dgl]

Yes, you can phone Microsoft and provided you have a decent excuse (knackered PC) and you don't do it too often they will issue you a new key.

I don't even think that is required, have installed office XP 3 times and not once have I had to call them, admittedly there were quite a few years between the first and second activation but ~1 year between the last 2.

 

[Crossover]

I don't even think that is required, have installed office XP 3 times and not once have I had to call them, admittedly there were quite a few years between the first and second activation but ~1 year between the last 2.

I don't think Office XP had online activation so it made no odds, from what I remember of it

 

[Crossover]

I don't think even Microsoft would be greedy enough to sell you a licence that would tie you to the first machine that the software is installed to...

Should be fine especially if it is from physical media. It used to be that OEM licences could not be transferred to another machine by the EU changed that and now OEM licences can be transferred but in theory only with a piece of hardware. My old copy od Office XP installed and activated fine on my new laptop.

I was going to say "OEM" in response to D365. As far as I am aware, OEM still means that it cannot be transferred, but I may be wrong as I mostly deal with VL (Volume Licencing)

 

[D365]

I was going to say "OEM" in response to D365. As far as I am aware, OEM still means that it cannot be transferred, but I may be wrong as I mostly deal with VL (Volume Licencing)

That's only for Operating Systems is it not?

 

[najaB]

That's only for Operating Systems is it not?

No. They do (or at least used to do) OEM versions of Office as well.

 

[dgl]

OEM for win 8/10 is locked to the original computer, previous versions of windows can be transferred but technically if only sold with hardware.

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[trainmania100]

I have office 2007 for 5 PCs and have used it on well over 5 PCs XD
I doubt youll have any trouble.
If you do, I recommend just using Word online, sign into your hotmail then in the top left corner click word online.

 

[dgl]

I don't think Office XP had online activation so it made no odds, from what I remember of it

Activation was either online or by phone, the discs were given to me for someone which had been given them by work and were DELL OEM discs. Without activation you only got 40? times to run the program before it locked as read only iirc.