wine users - Jan 2012 - MS Office 2010 Home - activation and licenses

Hi WineUsers,

I have been very pleased with experiencing how well office 2007 works on wine
(1.3.35-37 clean prefix) and I can see that there is also good progress on 2010.

I have been considering buying the home license for 2010 so that I can try it
out. However, I know that MS have some licensing scheme where you get to install
it on 3 computers and that's it. Does anyone here have some experience with
how this plays out with wine? Can I install it multiple times on each computer
(if my prefix gets corrupted)?

Br,
Christian

cviller wrote:
> 
> I have been considering buying the home license for 2010 so that I can try
it out. However, I know that MS have some licensing scheme where you get to
install it on 3 computers and that's it. Does anyone here have some
experience with how this plays out with wine? Can I install it multiple times on
each computer (if my prefix gets corrupted)?
> 
I don't know, but I would not recommend spending money on any app with a
limited number of activations for use in Wine.

Yes that was exactly why I think it would be interesting to know if anyone has
some experience with this. If e.g. the machine "magic key" is placed
in machine.config and I can copy that from a broken prefix to a fresh prefix on
the same machine and still be able to use the software.

I would check the appb before buying. I know there have been posts in 
the past about some of the newer MS Office stuff not working at all in 
Wine. I'm not sure if that is one of those or not, but better to check 
first.

Yeah, I have been following appdb and it seems like there is still some way to
go - but progress seems to be happening fast. And I have googled quite
thoroughly to see if there was any discussion on this license and activation
concern, but I could not find anything.

yes, you can intall many times with varius prefix: 
example:

env WINEPREFIX="/home/$USER/.office01" wine
"/home/$USER/office2007/setup.exe"
env WINEPREFIX="/home/$USER/.office02" wine
"/home/$USER/office2007/setup.exe"
env WINEPREFIX="/home/$USER/.office03" wine
"/home/$USER/office2007/setup.exe"

but the shortcuts maybe not run correctly; yo need first erase all 
rm -rf $HOME/.local/share/applications/wine/here path office