The seller can shut down their Ebay account and restart under another name. If people complain, they’ll probably ignore them. The Ebay merchant is hoping to sell as many of these ‘Microsoft Office 365 licences’ as possible before being shut down. Microsoft could also pursue people who bought this stolen product, though that’s unlikely. Once detected, Microsoft can and probably will disable use of Office. It seems they are selling an organization or academic licence which is tied to a specific user/email address.Īnyway you look at it, what’s being sold is illegal and a breach of the terms under which the Microsoft Office 365 licence was issued. Microsoft licences are either business or academic, not both. We’re not sure what they mean by a ‘business licence … part of an academic licence’. It says the license is ‘legitimate’ but then explains how they a misusing an Office licence. There are workarounds for some of that, for example adding your own OneDrive account. That special account is shared with others, allowing them to see your Recent Documents list, OneDrive files and anything else saved by Office in a Microsoft Account. That’s not just for installation but also ongoing use of Office software. They’ll give you another email address and password to login. You won’t be able to use your own email to login to your Microsoft account.
