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"Stephen Arrants" <stephen -dot- arrants -at- comcast -dot- net> wrote in message news:216357 -at- techwr-l -dot- -dot- -dot-
> If your Microsoft software repeatedly and regularly demands activation,
> there is something wrong with your system. We would've heard a lot more
> about this in the news if Word or Office or Windows did this daily.
Depends on where you get your news.
> If enough consumers had problems
> with activation and complained loudly enough, it'd be removed.
A lot of consumers have PCs with Windows and Office pre-installed by the
OEM. Those consumers don't even know about product activation. But when they
try to upgrade or replace their PCs, that's when the customer relations
nightmare will begin.
No doubt MS will eventually refuse to issue activations on their old
products. "Old" meaning you are on a 2-3 year upgrade cycle. It absolutely
kills MS that Win98/Office97 still works.
> The corporate, activation free versions of MSFT software avoid
> this problem...
> They are just meeting the wants/needs of large
> corporate customers.
Exactly MS was smart enough to realize that sysadmins would openly revolt
if they had to manage activations on every client. They weren't so concerned
about burdening individual consumers, though. Activation is for the little
people.
> I don't know where you work, but lots of us have no control over what
> software we use and what we can install on our computers.
Then you don't have to deal with activation, do you?
I'm a contractor too, so I'll probably get myself an MS-activated box
eventually. But I will probably keep it air-gapped from the Internet.
And it's not about theft or piracy, that's a red herring.. Product
activation is enough of a pain even if you are using a legal copy on one PC.
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