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"register with MSoft"
Is this on-line?
or
after ringing in to their office, does your registration # also get to be
"physicaly" mailed out to you + delivered by the Postman (in the street) ?
"Buying the thing is better", is absolutely true. But largly for aquinted users only.
Not for the masses.
New users will not be that easy attrackted anymore, since this "getting aquinted with
a program" and the learning curve, can sometimes take up well over 6+ months.
Just look back at the Learning period you had with this List's MSK + DL programs,
and not to speak of the L-period spend with the formula's for the IB + E (+SysT+OptVw).
I hope it will be "once registred, always registred" affair. Eg., this messing with the CdRom
to also take place only on the 1st "after 50 tries" occassion, and not like some badly designed
programs have error-ed before (or that were (running) improperly configured (PC's)) also
after the 100th, 150th, 200th etc. times(even when you do have that registration # entered
on the 1st 50th try).
The box below is the FULL + Official complete Office 2000 suite, and shipped alongside
were the non Office programs.
The only included RC version was that of the PhotoDRAW program, since that program
wasn't (at that time) ready for its scheduled Official release later on, in that year(Oct1999).
But all were definitly time limited versions, and are known to have been succesfully
hacked (but were only usefull to those hackers PC's, and weren't usefull for mass distribution).
Perhaps that is why the change over for the "50-tries" policy, tho.
Regards,
Ton Maas
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Wayne Mah" <wmah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: vrijdag 24 maart 2000 2:39
Subject: RE: Excel (OT)
MS2000 office requires two registration numbers, one that comes with the cd
and the other when you register with MSoft. You can ignore the
registration of the product, it then says you have 50 more tries before it
self- destructs. Then you have to reload the program again to have another
50 tries. This is a big pain, not worth my time. Buying the thing is
better anyway
At 01:14 PM 3/25/00 +1200, you wrote:
>2.a. This Off2000 package that Andy is speaking off, must be that
>Introduction Box
> that was handed out to "very close MS business relations" (for
> the very low
> price of â,¬20 (U$20) incl. S+H).
>
>Nope, this is the full release version of the entire range of MS Office
>2000, not any beta copies.
>
> d. ALL the programs mentioned above were time-limited versions and are
> now useless:
> -The Office suite of programs had a 6-weeks time limit use
> or
> - would stop functioning on July 31st, 1999
> and
> - WinNT for example stopped working on Oct 31st,1999.
>
>Again, what I was speaking of is the full release version of Office 2000.
>No expiry date.
>
>Couls anyone that has the full version of Office 2000 please confirm
>either way - Is there a registration process that needs to be completed
>before 50 uses of the product?
>
>As I said, there is in NZ, definitely.
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