From the Microsoft Software License Agreement for Office 2007:

"1. OVERVIEW. These license terms permit installation and use of one copy
of the software on one device, along with other rights, all as described
below.
2. INSTALLATION AND USE RIGHTS. Before you use the software under a
license, you must assign that license to one device. That device is the
“licensed device.” A hardware partition or blade is considered to be a
separate device.

Use at your own risk and your own conscience.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, dlandsman asked:

| I have just set up a dual boot environment in order to test Win7. I
| will have to install Office on my new Win7 partition.
|
| Can I activate the same copy of office on two different boot
| environments if they are running on the same physical HW? That is,
| does the license recognize the physical HW or the boot environment.
|
| If I cannot use/activiate in both environments without getting a new
| license, which is really not acceptable, do I have to de-activate my
| copy on XP and re-install on Win7? (Big hassle, by the way, because
| the whole point is to enable easy migration and have a backstop until
| I am sure my new environment is stable. I do not want to 'upgrade"
| because I want a clean registry.)