Sorry for reviving this topic.

Summary, edition can't use for business/commercial purposes:
- Windows (Home, Education) must use Pro
- Office (Home, Home & Student, and maybe Business & Student) must use Pro
- WPS free

What about, let say, a small shop with maybe 4 PC:
- All PC initially has Win 10 Home license, but were then formatted to Win 10 Pro with digital license linked to shop owner Microsoft personal account.
- 3 of 4 PC has valid retail license (product key) but were purchased thru personal non-official channel, then all linked to shop owner Microsoft account to become digital license.
- Last PC has Win digital license transferred from a broke down PC (Win 7 Pro then upgraded Win 10 Pro using Win 7 key) linked to shop owner Microsoft personal account.
- All PC were not using neither Microsoft Office or WPS but LibreOffice.

If the shop was raided by KPDNKK (with BSA and Microsoft representative), will they issue any summon to shop owner?
If not mistaken according to LibreOffice website, LibreOffice is Open License and free to use in commercial. So, will Microsoft representative said LibreOffice is illegal to use in commercial and force owner to buy Office and ditch LibreOffice?

Thanks.

This post has been edited by cbkhoo1492006: Mar 5 2025, 07:55 AM

You have your right to use other office suite, they can't force you to use MS Office
Like, you could be in the Google camp and use their Docs/Sheets/Presentations software in the browser and MS cannot stop you from doing that.

LibreOffice is free for all, they have partners offer paid tech support/consulting , but otherwise the core office suite is free for anyone to use.

https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/freque...ons#usebusiness

As for Windows license... not sure, I think best if you can show the keys used. but what source are they from? If it's like cheap shopee keys, dont think those would be good for this case.

Microsoft come also check their own product only... what say do they have if you use WPS or LibreOffice?

I did a quick check for the EULA. Couldn't find the home edition but the OEM edition eula had a few places where it said commercial use was not allowed. The Win10 oem eula looked the same as Win11 oem,.

https://www.microsoft.com/content/dam/micro..._11_English.pdf




The first part is about included Word/Excel/Powerpoint which doesn't apply.

The 2nd part only deals with server/hosting so if its used as a standalone device with no remote access, it should be ok.

The 3rd part says that the videos decoders is not for commercial use. So still quite weak justification for Microsoft/KPDN to raid and fine.

I'm not a lawyer and there could be things that I missed.