Migration to SSD with MS Office 2013 installed
I plan to install MS Office 2013 on my new Dell XPS desktop. I also plan to migrate from hdd to ssd in the near future via Acronis disk clone. My question is: Given MS's tedious and aggravating policy of "one computer for life" for this office suite, is there a chance that the program will recognize the migration as a reinstall to another computer and thereby disable itself? Does anyone know how MS Office 2013 identifies a computer as the one it was installed on? Motherboard, CPU or harddrive? And has anyone done this before and run into issues? Thanks in advance.

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Would such a migration (hdd to ssd) be recognized as an uninstall etc or would the bootup from the ssd partition be seamless without requiring a reinstall of Office 2013?
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If you just clone your boot and program partition and can boot up the clone (which should work as long as neither the HD you are coming from nor the SSD require special drivers), everything, including Office, should just continue to work. When I do a major upgrade, I generally try to do everything at once and install a clean OS, so I have usually had to reinstall Office.
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