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can i install office 2010 and office 365 on the same computer

Anonymous
2013-02-15T04:37:12+00:00

I have office 2010 professional installed on my computer. Can I install office 365 without having conflicts?

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Anonymous
2013-02-15T06:13:30+00:00

Yes.

365 runs in a "virtual computer" that separates all of the program code from the local install of 2010.  The only conflict is which version is defined as the default in Windows.  It can only be one or the other (obviously).

There is one other potential problem. Windows and the Office installer assume that you only have one need to have one version installed. When you have 2 versions installed locally you will get a "configuring" error every time you start an app in the alternate version.  I don't know if that is still a problem if you install 365 in click to run along side a local install.  If you do get the problem it is a simple fix.

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Anonymous
2013-02-16T22:47:53+00:00

Yes.. BUT!!!

You can only have one Version of Outlook running at a time.  As has been said.. Office 365 Home Premium is a Virtualized app.  You can actually run other versions of Office like 2010 at the same time just not both version of Outlook.

Though I am wondering if a small problem I am having on one machine is related.  My Office 365 Home Premium keeps asking for activation.. it has about once a week.  And then the install date for that machine is updated on my account.    Has not been a problem yet on my wife's machine who only has the new version installed where I for work reasons have been keeping 2010 installed too.

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-09-28T13:59:58+00:00

    Office 365 is onlinenetworking  tool were internet access is essential.Where as 2010 manually installed as applicatiion software at the level of disk administration.

    That is partly correct.

    It is true that ALL Office 365 installations require connection to the internet to work. 

    The Office 365 "installer" program you initially download, or find on the new Office 365 installation disks only installs "stubs" for each of the Office programs.  There is enough in the "stub" to start the program for the first time and to trigger download from the internet of additional program code.  This will download the "main" body of the program, but additional "obscure" program features will only be downloaded to your computer as you use them.  (sorry, I have not seen a specific description of how the programs are broken down into downloadable chunks, or what the specific "chunks" are.)

    After Office 365 is installed, and more than the stub of any program has been downloaded you can subsequently run the program while NOT connected to the internet, provided you don't try to use any features that have not already been downloaded.

    Since Office 365 is a monthly / yearly rental (aka "subscription") it has to periodically "check in" with MS to confirm you still have a subscription.  That means when you are running Office 365 unconnected to the internet, that on a roughly monthly basis, I have not seen an explicit time limit defined anywhere, you will have to allow your Office 365 to connect to the internet to re-confirm your subscription.

    It is true that many/most Office 2010 installations where "traditional" local installations.  But, if you bought an Office 2010 license as an online download, rather than in the boxed installation disk format, you got the same click-to-run / "virtual computer" installation method that Office 365 uses.  The key difference is that Office 2010 did not include the "benefit" (to MS primarily) of the monthly subscription scam (pardon my, "scheme").

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-09-28T06:40:22+00:00

    Office 365 is onlinenetworking  tool were internet access is essential.Where as 2010 manually installed as applicatiion software at the level of disk administration.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-09-27T21:53:21+00:00

    Yes.

     I don't know if that is still a problem if you install 365 in click to run along side a local install. 

    Pray, what does 'in click to run along side' mean?

    If you do get the problem it is a simple fix. If there is a simple fix, why not include it here, or atleast a link??

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