Microsoft licensing guides, tutorials & buying advice

This message worries people more than any other, so let us be direct: it very rarely means you were sold

Microsoft distributes Windows Server as an evaluation ISO, and converting that installation to a fully licensed one is the normal,

Most support threads that drag on do so for one reason: we cannot see what you are seeing. A single

Telephone activation sounds old-fashioned, but it is an official Microsoft route that exists precisely for the cases where online activation

It is an alarming message, but in our experience a genuinely faulty key is the least likely explanation. Work through

Office for Mac trips people up more than any other product we sell, and almost always for the same reason.

Standalone Office applications — Visio, Project, Word, Excel, Outlook, Access, PowerPoint and Publisher — are licensed separately from the Office

Windows Server licences are delivered by email within seconds, with the product key and a link to Microsoft’s official evaluation

Your Office licence arrives by email within seconds of payment, with the product key and a direct link to Microsoft’s