

You can download the PUR here for a bit of light reading. If you purchase a volume license of Office, then it can be shared between the desktop and the laptop.Īs I’ve mentioned before on this blog, the authoritative document for licensing questions such as this is the “Microsoft Volume Licensing Product Use Rights” document or “PUR” for short.


The basic idea behind the benefit is this: if you have an employee who uses a desktop in the office and a laptop in the field, you only need to buy Office once for that employee. One of those benefits was that “a single volume license of Office gives you the right to install Office on a desktop and a laptop if both devices have the same primary user.” I promised a blog post that would clarify that topic, so here goes… In a previous post, I provided a list of seven licensing benefits that many people are unaware of.
