MS Office Validation Now Mandatory

Iria · Oct 27, 2006, 05:48 PM

Source: BetaNews
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Want to use the extra features within Office? Be prepared to verify that your copy of the productivity suite is genuine. While the so-called Office Genuine Advantage has been around since April, Microsoft did not make it mandatory until Friday. Starting today, using Office Online templates would require the validation, and the ability to download updates would also require verification beginning in January.

BlueMak · Oct 27, 2006, 07:21 PM

I love my OpenOffice. I am not sure if I am against or in favour of the validation mentioned above.

TheBlackCat · Oct 27, 2006, 09:00 PM

I hate openoffice. I never bothered reinstalling when I reformatted. Just so many illogical features and so many missing features.

I don't care about validation. Anyone who is stupid enough to pirate key products like their operating system or MS office deserves what is coming to them. And it is not like Microsoft is leaving them helpless, they are just only letting them DL optional components. Security updates are still available (although admittedly only because people screamed bloody murder when Microsoft tried to ban those as well).

Oct 27, 2006, 05:48 PM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 74	MS Office Validation Now Mandatory Source: BetaNews _______ Want to use the extra features within Office? Be prepared to verify that your copy of the productivity suite is genuine. While the so-called Office Genuine Advantage has been around since April, Microsoft did not make it mandatory until Friday. Starting today, using Office Online templates would require the validation, and the ability to download updates would also require verification beginning in January.

Oct 27, 2006, 07:21 PM	#2
BlueMak DH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 8,239 Rep Power: 118 System Specs	I love my OpenOffice. I am not sure if I am against or in favour of the validation mentioned above. __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*

Oct 27, 2006, 09:00 PM	#3
TheBlackCat DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Searching for the Candle in the Dark Posts: 567 Rep Power: 22	I hate openoffice. I never bothered reinstalling when I reformatted. Just so many illogical features and so many missing features. I don't care about validation. Anyone who is stupid enough to pirate key products like their operating system or MS office deserves what is coming to them. And it is not like Microsoft is leaving them helpless, they are just only letting them DL optional components. Security updates are still available (although admittedly only because people screamed bloody murder when Microsoft tried to ban those as well). __________________ [color=#000000]There is always an easy solution to every human problem—neat, plausible and wrong.[/color] -H. L. Mencken