How to remove and resell Office XP Pro OEM

I have a copy of Office XP Pro OEM It is installed on my PC. I want to
remove it and sell it. (since I have a new copy of Office 2003) What will
happen when Office XP is installed on another computer? Will a problem exist
since it was previously installed on my PC? Can It be de-activated and
re-activated?

Thanks

Steve

An OEM copy of Office is licensed only for use on the machine with which it
was sold. You can convey it when you sell the machine. Any other sale would
violate the license agreement.

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"Steve Cohen" wrote in message
...
I have a copy of Office XP Pro OEM It is installed on my PC. I want to
remove it and sell it. (since I have a new copy of Office 2003) What
will
happen when Office XP is installed on another computer? Will a problem
exist
since it was previously installed on my PC? Can It be de-activated and
re-activated?

Thanks

Steve

Steve Cohen,
Read the eula. Your copy of Office is oem, cannot be resold or reinstalled
on another system...

Chris Schatte

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"Steve Cohen" wrote:

I have a copy of Office XP Pro OEM It is installed on my PC. I want to
remove it and sell it. (since I have a new copy of Office 2003) What will
happen when Office XP is installed on another computer? Will a problem exist
since it was previously installed on my PC? Can It be de-activated and
re-activated?

Thanks

Steve

Steve Cohen wrote:
I have a copy of Office XP Pro OEM It is installed on my PC. I want to
remove it and sell it. (since I have a new copy of Office 2003)
What will happen when Office XP is installed on another computer?
Will a problem exist since it was previously installed on my PC? Can
It be de-activated and re-activated?

Thanks

Steve


Sure you can sell it - but you'd have to sell your computer too. Doesn't
anyone read EULAs anymore?! Let me assist you: -

" Software as a Component of the Computer - Transfer. THIS
LICENSE MAY NOT BE SHARED, TRANSFERRED TO OR
USED CONCURRENTLY ON DIFFERENT COMPUTERS.
The SOFTWARE is licensed with the COMPUTER as a single
integrated product and may only be used with the COMPUTER. If
the SOFTWARE is not accompanied by HARDWARE, you may not use
the SOFTWARE. You may permanently transfer all of your rights
under this EULA only as part of a permanent sale or transfer
of the COMPUTER, provided you retain no copies, if you
transfer the SOFTWARE (including all component parts, the
media, any upgrades, this EULA and the Certificate of
Authenticity), and the recipient agrees to the terms of this
EULA. If the SOFTWARE is an upgrade, any transfer must also
include all prior versions of the SOFTWARE."

So no, you may not sell Office, unless you also sell the system.

In addition, even if that copy of Office had been retail you could not have
sold it as the licence would have been absorbed into the upgrade, so if you
wanted to sell XP, you couldn't, unless you sold 2003 along with it.

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