If you want to be guaranteed a genuine license, purchase it through the Store or (not the market place section).Īn immediate sign its not genuine is if they are selling the Pro Plus edition, which is only available to large organizations. Somewhere along the way, one of those persons might have installed it on a second system, activated it, because it went past 10 activation threshold, Microsoft detected it that it was being abused and blocked the key from further use. If you bought an MSDN licensed key, which carries up to 10 activations unlike full packaged retail licenses which only carry 1 activation, the person who sold it to you probably sold it to 10 other persons. Microsoft licenses it in good faith that customers won't do so, but I guess human nature wins out. Unfortunately, regardless of the licensing terms, persons still abuse the program, either giveaway product keys or resell it on auction sites. Even though its $50,000 worth of licenses, it is for one person only to use and no one else. The great thing about them, unlike trial Microsoft software, MSDN or TechNet keys don't expire.īecause the agreement under which the subscription is provided is a single license, none of the software should be distributed outside of it. The main purpose is for evaluation purposes. Microsoft has updated its Office Home Use Program by removing the previous benefit of steeply discounted copies of non-subscription Office for use at home by enterprise customers. They are genuine Microsoft product keys, they are actually retail licenses, but it is intended for a particular product channel either the Microsoft Software Developer Network (MSDN) or TechNet for IT Professionals who pay a subscription fee.

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