On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 11:22:18 -0500, Paul wrote in
Re MS Office box copy?:

Pick a more expensive version, receive more good news.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16832416580

"It requires you to link the product key that you get
in this package to a Windows Live account. It can then
never be transferred to another Windows Live account. Think
about that very hard if you are a building a system for others.

Since they are pushing their cloud thing, now to open a file
takes more clicks. It's not just a File Open anymore. It's
a File Open On My Computer. They've done a lot of little
things like that which just add complexity to what you used
to do very simply."

That one is apparently booby-trapped like Win8.1, in that
if you don't do your research, you end up tying it to the
Live Account. Another user reports:

"Other Thoughts: Search: "Office 2013 Direct Download Links"
You will find a .net with links direct from MSFT for all the
different versions. Burn a disc, and you can install on
multiple machines without downloading, also you can do a
'standard' machine-based activation instead of a Live
acct-based activation."

Excellent comments Paul. I dumped MS Office a couple of years ago and
switched to

http://www.softmaker.com/english/ofw_en.htm
SoftMaker Office 2012.
Compatible with Microsoft Office 2010, 2007, 2003, and more.

and not one regret.
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