Product license for Microsoft Office 2016 Home/Student
This is a review of the specific license product, not a review of Microsoft Office 2016.
I was a little skeptical about sellers advertising genuine licenses for Microsoft Office, Windows 10 and other products at extremely competitive prices. However, in this case, somewhat to my surprise, I was able to activate the product at Microsoft without problems.
To make it clear, the only thing you get when you purchase one of these license-only eBay products is a license number delivered within minutes to your e-mail address. Nothing more. You need then to create a Microsoft account if you do not already have one (this is obligatory to install the product, not optional), register the license number, download the installation file and run it on your computer. You should do it with a fast Internet connection without surcharges, because it is a large download.
Aside from this, as long as you allow Microsoft Office to periodically call home to verify the license and download updates, nothing else is required. I only need Word, PowerPoint and Excel, and these products are by now so stable that even in 2019 the 2016 version is doing everything I need. I don't use One Note (included in the student version), and gave up on Access (not included in this version) many years ago because the Access programs that I wrote for my science library were continuously broken by changes that Microsoft was frequently introducing).
To be fair, I believe that Microsoft allows you to install this type of Office license on only one computer. Period. If you change PC, you cannot move the license to the new machine. Nonetheless, I change computers so seldom that this is not a problem for me, and still acceptable for the price I paid.
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