Office Home and Business cannot be activated without a “Microsoft account”. Next, they set up the laptop for Office 365 and install their new Office 2013. Note the designation Home and Business, indicating that it is fine for business use. They buy with it the closest equivalent to the Office 2010 Product Key Card, which is Home and Business 2013, this guy: With me so far? Now comes the moment when a new member of staff joins, for whom a new laptop is purchased.
This is licensed only for the PC on which it is first installed. That would normally be the OEM version or more recently the Product Key Card (PKC) equivalent.
A small business contacted me with a perplexing problem related to Office 2013 and Office 365.
