This week I’ve faced an avalanche of mail about Office 2013 and, in particular, how it differs from Office 365. The licensing details are a bit hard to swallow, but once you see where Microsoft ...

Think twice before buying a Microsoft Office 2013 subscription as that license is tied to one PC and one PC only, meaning you're out of luck if you upgrade your system.

Microsoft changed the Office 2013 licensing in response to customer backlash. A couple weeks ago, Microsoft explained the Office 2013 licensing to specify that it is non-transferrable.

In a Microsoft-supplied chart comparing Office 2010 and Office 2013 product licenses, the company shows that like Office 2010 “product key cards”—codes that downloadable copies of the ...

Microsoft has had a change of heart about its controversial transferability rule for Office 2013 applications. A new post on the Office blog says that henceforth your Office 2013 license won’t ...

Users no longer have to wait for PCs to fail under warranty to transfer Office 2013 software installs. While the policy is more forgiving, some restrictions still apply.

Microsoft today backpedaled from a sweeping change in its licensing for retail copies of Office 2013, saying that customers now have the right to move the software from one machine to another.

Replace your Microsoft 365 subscription with Microsoft Office Pro to get many of the same apps for a one-time price, and it’s ...

Microsoft Lync — We replaced the two separate Lync Server 2010 Standard Edition and the Lync Server 2010 Enterprise Edition with a single license. With Lync Server 2013, any organization ...

Those who want to stick with Office but are concerned about the new Office 2013 license restrictions might just decide they have little choice. Update, February 21 at 11 a.m. PT: Adds response ...

If you buy a perpetual retail license for Office 2013, it will be locked to the computer you first install it on, forever. Buy a new PC and you won't be allowed to install your existing copy of ...