{"id":642717,"date":"2013-02-15T14:41:32","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T19:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=328427"},"modified":"2013-02-15T14:41:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T19:41:32","slug":"microsoft-takes-heat-for-draconian-obtuse-office-2013-license-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/642717","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft takes heat for \u2018draconian, obtuse\u2019 Office 2013 license terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/15\/microsofts-office-criticism-licensing-terms-328427\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"464\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/microsoft-office-2013.jpg?w=650&amp;h=464&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Microsoft Office Criticism\" title=\"Microsoft Office 2013\" \/><\/a><\/center>If you buy a license for <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/01\/28\/microsoft-office-2013-set-for-january-29th-debut-309767\/\">Microsoft Office 2013<\/a>, be warned: You may only be allowed to use it on one machine, no matter the circumstances. Both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/t\/office-software\/microsoft-mangles-office-2013-licensing-212977\"><em>InfoWorld&#8217;s<\/em> Woody Leonhard<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/technology\/technology-news\/does-your-copy-of-office-2013-die-with-your-computer-20130208-2e3a1.html\"><em>The Age&#8217;s<\/em> Adam Turner<\/a> have done good jobs of combing through the details of <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=msft\">MSFT<\/a>) latest Office licensing terms and have found that Office users can get &#8220;a perpetual license for the Office 2013 programs&#8221; that only covers one computer. This means that if your PC breaks and you have to buy a new one, you may not be able to transfer your Office 2013 license to your new machine and may have to pay for it all over again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/15\/microsofts-office-criticism-licensing-terms-328427\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/NULP0ExJaRg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you buy a license for Microsoft Office 2013, be warned: You may only be allowed to use it on one machine, no matter the circumstances. Both InfoWorld&#8217;s Woody Leonhard and The Age&#8217;s Adam Turner have done good jobs of combing through the details of Microsoft&#8217;s\u00a0(MSFT) latest Office licensing terms and have found that Office [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}