Ability to unregister or unactivate apps as part of uninstall

The lifespan of Office software may exceed the lifespan of my PC, especially
if I buy a new PC every year. Trouble is, if you try to install Office on a
new PC and activate it, an error message will inform you that the product is
already activated on another PC. This is so even if the product has already
been uninstalled from the old PC. Why not provide a way to un-activate the
old one at the time of uninstallation? It stinks that Microsoft assumes you
will install it once and when you throw your PC away, you will just buy a new
Office license. It really, really, really stinks!

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If your copy of MS Office is an OEM one
(intended for sale/pre-install on a new PC)
that copy is licensed to the machine rather than
to the individual and is not transferable.

If it's a retail copy you can use Telephone
activation to explain the situation to a
MS Activation technician to move your product.

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"Drizzt197three" wrote in message
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The lifespan of Office software may exceed the lifespan of my PC, especially
if I buy a new PC every year. Trouble is, if you try to install Office on a
new PC and activate it, an error message will inform you that the product is
already activated on another PC. This is so even if the product has already
been uninstalled from the old PC. Why not provide a way to un-activate the
old one at the time of uninstallation? [snip]
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

Yea but what if you have a retail copy or in my case a MS Action Pack version
and every time i reinstall it or move it from machine to machine for what
ever reason (still staying within the licensing of course) i have to call MS
for activation, sure it only takes 5 min (now that i figured out you can use
the key pad and not mess with the voice rec) but thats 5 min u have to spend
doing it. I like that idea, have a way to "un-activate", maybe have a
username and password or something to allow someone to do that...



"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:

If your copy of MS Office is an OEM one
(intended for sale/pre-install on a new PC)
that copy is licensed to the machine rather than
to the individual and is not transferable.

If it's a retail copy you can use Telephone
activation to explain the situation to a
MS Activation technician to move your product.

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"Drizzt197three" wrote in message
...
The lifespan of Office software may exceed the lifespan of my PC, especially
if I buy a new PC every year. Trouble is, if you try to install Office on a
new PC and activate it, an error message will inform you that the product is
already activated on another PC. This is so even if the product has already
been uninstalled from the old PC. Why not provide a way to un-activate the
old one at the time of uninstallation? [snip]
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

Activation is anonymous, to add a username would sort of
defeat that

The MS Partner's Action Pack is a special edition,
supported through the MS Partner folks.
MS Action Pack for Office has 5 retail product licenses,
each supporting two activations.
Action pack copies are for internal use only
https://partner.microsoft.com/US/sal...rview/40009853

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"WebNet" wrote in message ...
Yea but what if you have a retail copy or in my case a MS Action Pack version
and every time i reinstall it or move it from machine to machine for what
ever reason (still staying within the licensing of course) i have to call MS
for activation, sure it only takes 5 min (now that i figured out you can use
the key pad and not mess with the voice rec) but thats 5 min u have to spend
doing it. I like that idea, have a way to "un-activate", maybe have a
username and password or something to allow someone to do that...
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

I have the retail edition, not OEM. Yes, I can and have called when moving
the software from one PC to another, but its inconvenient. Also, I would
think that Microsoft would want to implement something like this because all
they can do when I call them is provide a new CD key. The ability to
unactivate my app and then activate later on a different PC would guarantee
that I'm running only a single copy, the copy that I paid for. If they give
me a customer a second CD key, they can't guarantee the customer will
uninstall it from the old PC. Finally, it doesn't have to be a user name,
now does it? The registration is done using the CD key itself, so the
unregistration could use the same. Can't imagine why anybody (Bob?) would
think that a corresponding ability to unregister/unactivate should go along
with the ability to register/activate. To me, it just seems like common
sense.

"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:


Activation is anonymous, to add a username would sort of
defeat that

The MS Partner's Action Pack is a special edition,
supported through the MS Partner folks.
MS Action Pack for Office has 5 retail product licenses,
each supporting two activations.
Action pack copies are for internal use only
https://partner.microsoft.com/US/sal...rview/40009853

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"WebNet" wrote in message ...
Yea but what if you have a retail copy or in my case a MS Action Pack version
and every time i reinstall it or move it from machine to machine for what
ever reason (still staying within the licensing of course) i have to call MS
for activation, sure it only takes 5 min (now that i figured out you can use
the key pad and not mess with the voice rec) but thats 5 min u have to spend
doing it. I like that idea, have a way to "un-activate", maybe have a
username and password or something to allow someone to do that...
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx