I've just taken delivery of a Samsung N140 Netbook with Windows 7 and have exactly the same problem. MS Office is preinstalled together with a desktop icon labelled 'Microsoft Office 1-year Prepaid - Online' This runs "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Activation Assistant for Netbooks\" which hits https://trial.trymicrosoftoffice.com...k/connect.aspx giving the following error: HTTP Error 401.2 - Unauthorized: Access is denied due to server configuration.
Internet Information Services (IIS).
Have logged a service request with Samsung and will post back with an update.

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frmsrcurl: http://msgroups.net/microsoft.public...t-for-netbooks