It would also encourage the use of obsolete software that could have serious security flaws. Such a law is wishful thinking, and poses a lot of practical problems. and if THAT distinction would made to law, companies would just rewrite their software until they reach the 'server required for use' status, OR they just go completely cloud based. Online games is one example here, so such a law would have to make distinctions between 'server required for use', and 'server required for activation'. It would also pose problems with software that requires servers to operate, which is not uncommon in today's cloud world.

Disabling activation will eventually force customers to PURCHASE a new version of the software, something that is very popular with businesses in the free market economy! IMO if I was SCOTUS (or Congress) I'd make a ruling that any software that requires some server to use it, must make the server software available to all users when they want to shutdown the servers.The problem with this is that Microsoft (and many other companies) will protest heavily to the point of lawsuits. I screenshotted it and emailed it to myself. It says to write that down because it can be reused. Typically just installing on a new computer when an old one dies.Įnter those numbers and then it gives you a Confirmation ID which is also 40 digits or so. Then it asks you how many computers you've installed on. So it will then roll over to manual entry of the code on the Activation Wizard screen. They're VOIP numbers like Google Voice and it won't take those. It asks me if I want to use a smartphone to capture the screen or something but it won't accept any of my smartphone numbers to send the text to.

It also says that telephone activation is no longer supported.įortunately I have the phone number saved in an email. I have that.Īfter opening Word, the Activation Wizard pops up on the screen saying it has been activated too many times. On installation it asks for your Product Key. I just activated Office 2010 on a new PC.

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