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Forced to reactivate for no good reason
Yesterday, when I went into Word, a wizard window popped
up which said I had to reactivate Office, because a significant change in my computer had been detected. I needed to insert the Office CD into my laptop computer, but the CD was at home. I was unable to do any work in Office until I returned home in the evening. I basically lost for a day the use of a product which I had paid for. No significant change had occurred recently on my PC. The entire motherboard had been replaced previously, but that was months ago. If this situation were to occur, you would think the new motherboard would have triggered it. Why would such a thing occur after no changes to the computer? And why does Microsoft do such annoying things, even to the people who conscientiously buy their products? Robert Weisser (each component in the address is reversed) |
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Forced to reactivate for no good reason
You should have been able to continue to use Office for 50 more boots until
activation was fully required. Is this not the case? Thanks, Eric "Robert Weisser" wrote in message ... Yesterday, when I went into Word, a wizard window popped up which said I had to reactivate Office, because a significant change in my computer had been detected. I needed to insert the Office CD into my laptop computer, but the CD was at home. I was unable to do any work in Office until I returned home in the evening. I basically lost for a day the use of a product which I had paid for. No significant change had occurred recently on my PC. The entire motherboard had been replaced previously, but that was months ago. If this situation were to occur, you would think the new motherboard would have triggered it. Why would such a thing occur after no changes to the computer? And why does Microsoft do such annoying things, even to the people who conscientiously buy their products? Robert Weisser (each component in the address is reversed) |
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Forced to reactivate for no good reason
That makes sense.
Thanks, Robert "Eric Lawrence [MSFT]" wrote in message ... You should have been able to continue to use Office for 50 more boots until activation was fully required. Is this not the case? Thanks, Eric "Robert Weisser" wrote in message ... Yesterday, when I went into Word, a wizard window popped up which said I had to reactivate Office, because a significant change in my computer had been detected. I needed to insert the Office CD into my laptop computer, but the CD was at home. I was unable to do any work in Office until I returned home in the evening. I basically lost for a day the use of a product which I had paid for. No significant change had occurred recently on my PC. The entire motherboard had been replaced previously, but that was months ago. If this situation were to occur, you would think the new motherboard would have triggered it. Why would such a thing occur after no changes to the computer? And why does Microsoft do such annoying things, even to the people who conscientiously buy their products? Robert Weisser (each component in the address is reversed) |
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