The End-User License Agreement (EULA) for some Microsoft application software products includes the aforementioned statement. If your EULA contains this sentence, then, subject to the conditions mentioned in the quote above, you may make a second copy of the software.
Note that the software must be installed on the local hard disk of your computer – you are not entitled to make and use a second copy on your portable computer if you run the primary copy of the software from a network server. To check out the EULA of your own MS Office 2003/XP, search in the Microsoft Office\Office11 or Office10 folder for .TXT files the names of which contain the letters “EULA”
If you run a business or enterprise, you may install a second copy of the Software Product on a portable Device owned by you for the exclusive use of the person within your business or enterprise who is the user of the primary copy of the Software Product, provided that such person only uses the second copy for business purposes.
But Please Be Advised! The portable-use option is not available for OEM versions of MS Office! The OEM Office (which typically comes pre-installed; otherwise is obtained at the time of a new computer’s purchase) is tied to the original PC and does not have portable use rights. These are only available in Full Packaged Product or Volume licensing.
How does Microsoft Product Activation work?
Product Activation works by validating that the software’s product key, required as part of product installation, has not been used on more PCs than is allowed by the software’s end user license agreement (EULA). In general, Windows XP can be installed on one PC and Office 2003 or Office XP can be installed on one PC and the laptop computer used by the user of the one PC. (For specifics, please see the EULA accompanying your product.)
References:
- Microsoft Product Activation Facts
- Microsoft Licensing FAQ (look at page 11)
- Microsoft Licensing FAQs
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