Office - Legality_of_hosting_Office_iso’s_(no_keys)?

My friends and I do PC support for different companies, most of which
are still on XP and still using older versions of Office. Many times
we will come across a situation where Office needs reinstalled and the
company we=92re going into didn=92t hold on to the CD=92s or otherwise no
longer have them.

We can of course extract the product key for Office from the PC, but
we=92re always looking around for the media.

So our idea was to rip CD=92s of all the various flavors of older Office
(2000, XP, 2003, and the various sub categories like Basic/Standard/
Professional/SBE).

My question is, would it be legal to throw all these ISO=92s on a
website. Our intention is simply to help other technicians like
ourselves who have spent countless hours trying to locate the actual
media or iso.

We wouldn=92t charge any money to access these, and they would be
useless without their respective product keys. So would this endeavor
be legal? We don=92t want to get blasted by Microsoft.

Thanks in advance!

Yes it is perfectly legal to post all your iso's on a website as long as
you do not put your serial numbers anywhere else.

I suggest create a dedicated website and post the links here so that we
can review it and adivise you accordingly.  You can include windows
Iso's as well for complete convenience.

I repeat - do not post your serial numbers anywhere.

Good luck.

yerk55

The short answer being is NO. You can of course post Office 95,97,98,2000 and XP but
not any versions of 2003,2007,2010 since they are still under the support period.
Once the support period expires then you may post those ISO files for the 03,07,10
versions also.


My friends and I do PC support for different companies, most of which
are still on XP and still using older versions of Office. Many times
we will come across a situation where Office needs reinstalled and the
company we?re going into didn?t hold on to the CD?s or otherwise no
longer have them.

We can of course extract the product key for Office from the PC, but
we?re always looking around for the media.

So our idea was to rip CD?s of all the various flavors of older Office
(2000, XP, 2003, and the various sub categories like Basic/Standard/
Professional/SBE).

My question is, would it be legal to throw all these ISO?s on a
website. Our intention is simply to help other technicians like
ourselves who have spent countless hours trying to locate the actual
media or iso.

We wouldn?t charge any money to access these, and they would be
useless without their respective product keys. So would this endeavor
be legal? We don?t want to get blasted by Microsoft.

Thanks in advance!