MS Office Home and Student 2003

Hi Guys.

I have a Win2K Pro desktop. I have a friend with an XP SP2 desktop who has a legally bought/paid-for and registered copy of MS Office Home and Student 2003 who offered to let me install it on my Win2K rig. Will there be any installation issues on my Win2K, and will this affect his ability to reinstall it on his XP in the future if he should ever have to re-format or something of that nature?

BTW, he never deactivated, removed, altered or by-passed his WGA in any way that didn't come straight from MS if that would matter (I of course don't have WGA on my Win2K.)

As always, Thanks.

 

If you are both connected to the Internet, it might. I reccomend purchasing it yourself, or using OpenOffice or OxgenOffice.

 

Thanks Steve_East9. That's about what I thought.

If what he is offering me is "Microsoft Office Student and Teacher Edition 2003" and not "MS Office Home and Student 2003" (mis-name my fault) well then it does indeed have a three work station limit. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Now I have a hypothetical for you: he has the Student/Teacher 2003 installed on his desktop and his wife's laptop. That would make my Win2K install the third and final license. When he gets his next computer he will likely offer me his current rig at a very reasonable price. After he reformats and turns it over to me, can the Student/Teacher 2003 be reinstalled on that, or would I have screwed that up by using license #3 on my current Win2K? OR are that computer and that program always going to be accepted by each other?

Thanks again.

 

Thanks Halo and Steve_East9.

All the answers made good sense. I think I'll go ahead and take him up on the offer to install it on my Win2K. He's already told me that when he gets his new rig he'll be getting Office 2007, so unless his wife needs to reinstall it on her laptop, he won't have any more need for the 2003. I'll worry about reinstalling it on his old PC if and when the time comes.
Thanks again.