PatS

Jan 11, 2021

Beware Lifetime License is not for user but for specific machine only

I purchased Microsoft Office Professional with a Lifetime License. The download worked fine but when I entered the Product Key an on screen message from Microsoft said the Product Key had been activated the maximum number ot times. I then contacted Fastsoftware who instructed me to try again but this time activate over the telephone and they blamed Microsoft saying they were having Activation issues. I activated the software over the telephone and it appears to be all ok. However I purchased this software with a lifetime license and it now transpires that the license is attached to the pc, not to my personal Microsoft account, so if the pc fails or if I decide to replace it I will no longer have a license to this software. My understanding of a lifetime license was that as a user I was entitled to install and use this software on one pc (not multiple) but that the license would still be linked to me and I could install the software again if my current pc became redundant and was not using the software. This has always been the case when I have purchased a one user piece of software on a lifetime license in the past, the license has been linked to me as a user, not to my elderly pc. So beware if you expect this license to be of use to you in the future, the term "Lifetime" is very misleading and Fast Software were not remotely interested in the comment to this effect.