It is difficult to say whether these offers are legal licenses or not. Many readers seem to think that low-cost deals are worth trying. See ultra-cheap Microsoft Office offers, are they legal and work? If you see a Now ready to go screen with options to try, buy, or activate Office, Office has been installed on your new PC as a one-month trial of Microsoft 365 Family. You won`t get a product key from your PC manufacturer unless you purchased an Office product key card. Instead, you can start a trial of Microsoft 365 Family or purchase Office. Is it legal? I don`t know. But otherwise, Microsoft would have stopped the sale long ago, they have endless money for lawsuits. Or simply reject the license key during online activation. So at least so legal that Microsoft does not dare to sue in the EU.

If you want to get Office product keys elsewhere, we recommend that you read the Secure Shopping Tips to make sure you`re buying genuine Microsoft software. Be sure to read the tip titled Product keys are never sold separately if you want to buy a product key online. If you buy a product key online and it doesn`t work or no longer works, see My Office product key doesn`t work. However, I do not quite understand what you mean by “falling from vice”; To me, this looks like theft and therefore more illegal than reselling properly acquired licenses (even if it violates the terms of the license). The site somehow seems too serious for that. If you think the product key has been lost, stolen, or misplaced, and you just want to buy a newer version of Office, you can click the button below to compare prices and options and make a purchase. Try to install the version of Office that you have on the new computer by using your existing product key. There is no risk in trying.

You can also change your Office license if you buy a different version of Office. For example, if you have Office Home and Business and decide to subscribe to Microsoft 365, you can switch your existing installation of Office Home and Business to Microsoft 365. See Change your Office license. Have bought for 4 Office 2019 Pro laptops at Rakuten, per license a little less than 3 euros. Flawless operation. For a year. Even if they were off now, it would have been a well-invested 11 euros and I would buy new keys for about the same price. A cheap product key – but is it legal? Photo: Screenshot If you purchased Office Professional Plus online, drag Can I buy a product key? consult. If your product key doesn`t work, see My Office product key isn`t working. Sure, I could buy from the competition, but they require a lot of time to get used to and don`t offer the same functions. If Office prompts you for a product key and you want to purchase a product key to activate Office, we recommend that you uninstall your current version of Office, and then purchase and install a new version of Office from the Microsoft Store. This way, you can be sure that Office will activate successfully.

Of course, you always have the option to buy a permanent license – depending on the license and provider, you pay up to 300 euros for this. A pile of coal. So it`s no wonder that many are looking for a cheap product key. By the way: Microsoft makes diligent use of the ability to disable illegally activated software. You can save yourself the trouble if you buy the product from the start at the actual price. Not sure which version of Office you need? Our guide to Office versions offers a first orientation. The dangers posed by illegal software are described in detail in our article Malware by pirate copy. To renew your Microsoft 365 subscription, you can purchase a Microsoft 365 product key card from a retail store and redeem the key to www.office.com/setup. You can also renew your subscription online at support.microsoft.com/help/4026354/office-renew-your-office-365-subscription without a product key. Especially on the Internet, many obviously cheap software offers are circulating. These do not have to be illegal. Be careful though.

An extremely low price can be an indication of illegal software. Microsoft Certificates of Authenticity can only be used to identify products, especially PCs or DVDs, with Microsoft`s permission. Here are some examples of how to legally label products such as PCs with COAs: Nevertheless, I would be skeptical about legality with a current operating system or Office for less than €20. In private, however, nothing happens anyway. For you as a customer, the worst consequence is that the purchased product key does not work. Or – and this may be a little worse – that Microsoft will end up disabling your cheaply purchased Office package without warning. In this case, it is only useful for you to purchase a legal license key to unlock your version of Office again. You will need the Office product key.

Retail purchases have a sticker with the 25-character code. Office 2013 and later versions do not save the product key in the registry, so it is not possible to retrieve the key from there. If product activation does not work, no harm is done. Microsoft police aren`t going to come knocking on your door😊. If you have a new product key that you`ve never used before, change your zuwww.office.com/setup and follow the on-screen instructions. If Office was preinstalled on your new device and you see a yellow or red banner in an Office application, PRODUCT NOTE: Most features have been disabled because they have not been enabled. You must start a new trial of Microsoft 365 Family, sign in with a Microsoft account associated with Office, or purchase Office.