Student Discount Versions of XP and Office.

About two years ago, I purchased copies of Windows XP and Office using a university student discount at the university's tech store. Those two are both installed into my aging and soon to be replaced desktop.

I'm led to believe that these are one time license copies. That is, now that they've been activated, they will not be able to be used on a new computer. Am I slightly out of luck? Will I be required to buy a brand new, ridiculously overpriced version of Office for retail to be able to use it on my next system?

Assuming that's the case, would I be able to instead buy from somewhere else with the student discount, or is that a one-shot as well? Is there anyway to totally remove the Office from my old computer, killing its functionality completely and reinstalling/activating it on a new computer?

I did ask the tech store's workers before posting this, but their answers left a bit to be desired. "Well sir, you can try to install it, and if it works it works and if it doesn't work, it doesn't work." Yippee, that helped me a lot.

 

I can say that the Student Media XP discs and licenses are transferable (or has been in my case). With my student version of XP 64bit, I had to install twice on my desktop build because I swapped out motherboards. The second install, I had to call Microsoft to activate; they had no issue with it.

I don't know about the office issue.