MS has done it again. They must have a Division of Dumbassed Moves.
Their latest winner? You buy a license to MS Office 2013. Now it’s tied to that computer and that’s it. Anything happens to that computer, or you decide to upgrade to another system, you’d better keep the old one because the license cannot be transferred to the new one.
“Under our license we grant you the right to install and run that one copy on one computer (the licensed computer) ...