Hi,
I want to make portable MS Office 2010. But I know that its licence (as many other applications) does not allow to distrubite it after making it portable (editing it in any way).
That's why I am asking if it is possible (it is legal) to create articles by developers like: "how to make your portable MS office 2010 from your own installation file" step by step. So every user can make MS Office 2010 portable.
I know there are developer articles to make every app portable, but there are many people who can not understand them, and I think it is easy to create an one article just for a specific application (MS Office 2010).
I know there are many application that does not allow to distrubite. Now developers will ask me: why just we will create article for MS Office 2010 and not for others..?... But MS Office's market share is very big and it is one of the most important (necessary) applications that we use (because for it's own formats: doc, dox, pptx...). It is possible to open there formats by LibreOffice and OpenOffice but they are not opening and editing 100% properly.
Thank you!
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Microsoft Office is licensed and locked to a single PC and can't be moved to another one even by fully installing it there. It's locked based on hardware (combination of motherboard/cpu, main hard drive, network card and a few other things). The only way around that is to use a corporate version (illegal for individuals) or to crack the software (also illegal).
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
Here: http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/buy?WT.mc_id=ODC_enAU_Office_Buy
Under the "Office Home and Business" Writes:
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For 1 user
2 PCs
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That means it is possible to use the same copy of MS Office 2010 (with same licence) on two machine at home.
I think it is not illgeal to make Office portable and use it on the other machine.
-I am not talking to distrubing it
-I am not using it on another machine except 2 machines
-I will make the Office 2010 portable at home by myself from my installer which I will buy it legaly
Is that possible?
That license just means it is licensed for 2 PCs. So it gets installed and hardware locked to those 2 PCs and can't be used on any others. Office is designed with anti-piracy features to prevent exactly what you want to do.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
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So it gets installed and hardware locked to those 2 PCs and can't be used on any others.
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So I can make a portable for my own 2PCs? (which I think will work for many other devices, but ofcourse I will not use it because it is illegal).
but the Q is why to do such complicated way.
Hmm well you can certainly do it for yourself, but it seems to me lot of work just compared to simple installation from a media or download it from net as it is done today.
Why to make it portable when you can have it installed properly?
(as it will not work on any other devices, legal or not)
The process is rather that if you do not do the registration process correctly, it will work some days, I think abt 1 month, and then it will stop doing anything at all. The registration is such that the data of the copy merged with the data of the hardware are registered with authors and then all is switched on remotely or code delivered by phone etc.
So I think all your trying will be rather useless process after all.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland