Mac Microsoft Word multiple installs

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my brother and i live in the same brownstone - diff apts but same building - we're on the same internet network but not like computer network. is it wrong for us to install the same copy of microsoft word? i know there's some illegal stuff going on there, but i figure you have to be able to install it on multiple computers in a house...

no? is there like a computer tech thread i should be posting on?

― Surmounter (rra123), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

i think if you limewire for registration codes and register different codes, you're alright.

that's what i heard anyway

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

oh INTERNET network. i think you're ok regardless. if not, re-install and do what i advised in the other comment

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

office will likely get mad and shut one copy of word down you can avoid this by using a different serial for one or getting a little program called MS Office v.X Cracker that blocks the port office uses to search for dupe copies running on the network.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

OK it's not really a NETWORK

it's just an airport we both use

two totally separate computers

― Surmounter (rra123), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

That's still a network.

In any case, it's still against the terms of the license agreement. Download OpenOffice instead, that's legal.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

really??? wow, k

― Surmounter (rra123), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't Open Office kind of crap, though?

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

For basic word-processing stuff it's totally fine. Download NeoOffice, though, to save yourself some hassle.

― lurker #2421, inc. (lurker-2421), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

As an alternative, you can use Abiword too. There's really no need to use Word anymore.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

but i figure you have to be able to install it on multiple computers in a house

micro$$$oft would disagree.

that said, in practical terms you, er, can do it - i've, umm, been told - without any problems whatsoever.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

I've definitely done it with absolutely 0 problems.

― AllyzayEisenschefterBDawkinsFlyingSquirrelRomoCrying.jpg (allyzay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

You can't with the latest version unless you find another license key from somewhere. If you try to register two copies with the same license key too soon together, it will refuse to work unless you phone a Microsoft call-centre and beg.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

actually, there's probably a tech-dork solution out there somewhere. my experience of office on old macs was that it would basically start a network server that would broadcast version information, and if other installations of office were out there, they would register the illegal activity and shut down.

ah, here's what i'm talking about:

http://www.ciac.org/ciac/techbull/CIACTech02-003.shtml

dunno if they still do it now, but if that's the case, a simple firewall would thwart it.

― nicenick (nicenick), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

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