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Originally Posted by knet  Thank you for your reply. Just another question. Will the "Boot Camp" and Parallels MW Office installations coexist? Are both of them runnable?
Just to eliminate possible misunderstandings: Parallels starts/runs Windows from the Boot Camp partition. I do NOT have 2 separate Windows images. |
Your message must be for Windows, and not Office. Office should work on both Windows setups.
You have 1 Windows installation that you enter using two different methods. You activate your Windows installation, for example, when using Parallels. That's a virtualized environment that is activated. When you then boot into Windows (your actual Boot Camp-created partition), then you are now using - as far as Windows is concerned - a different computer, and your Windows will complain that you have changed your hardware, and then requires activation for that type of booting. So, you need to activate Windows twice - once for the normal boot-to-windows completely, and once for the virtualized boot-via-Parallels.
Two different Windows (Windows thinks so, anyway)
It's a Microsoft thing that you have to put up with.....