This license modifies your right to use the software under a separately acquired Office Home & Student 2013 RT license, by waiving the prohibition against commercial use of the software. You must assign each license to a single device. Later in the document, the description of rights gets more specific, with a list of five additional terms, including these three extremely relevant items: These rights are also available to customers licensed for Office Professional Plus 2013 and Office Standard 2013 under their Office license (for the primary user of the device to which the license is assigned) and Office Professional Plus Subscriptions. We introduced a new license to add commercial use rights under separately acquired licenses for Office Home & Student 2013 RT. Microsoft’s October 2012 Product Use Rights agreement includes this new section, headed “Office Home & Student 2013 RT Commercial Use Rights”: If your organization buys Office as part of a Volume License program, you are specifically exempted from that portion of the Office 2013 RT license. Īnd where do you buy those rights? They come along for the ride if you acquire a volume license for Office or if you subscribe to a business edition of Microsoft’s Office 365 service, which is now in trial. However, organizations who purchase commercial use rights or have a commercial license to Office 2013 suites can use Office Home & Student 2013 RT for commercial, nonprofit, or revenue-generating activities. In this post, I have more details, including specifics from the respective license agreements.Īs sold, Office Home & Student 2013 RT Preview and the final edition are not designed for commercial, nonprofit, or revenue-generating activities. My colleague Mary Jo Foley already revealed that a solution was possible.
That’s the section that has raised a mild panic among early buyers of Surface devices. Office apps are licensed to you for your personal, non-commercial use, and you may not use them for any non-profit, commercial, or other revenue generating activity. Office apps are governed by some additional terms and are part of Microsoft Office Home and Student 2013 RT or Microsoft Office 2013 RT. Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote (“Office apps”) are Windows apps included with Windows RT. But the bigger issue is whether you can legally do all that businessy stuff, given this prohibitive language in the Windows RT license agreement: So, yes, you can use Office to create and edit all sorts of work-related documents.
You’re most likely to be successful if you’re an individual or a small business that doesn’t rely on custom templates or add-ins (corporate documents have bigger problems if they rely on macros or other custom code not supported on Windows RT).
You can get an awful lot of business-related tasks done, like writing legal briefs and sales pitches and calculating budgets and timelines.
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