This Office activation wizard is designed to combat this casual piracy. If successful, the mechanism could tap another source of Office revenue as more legal copies are sold. But LeTocq believes customers forced to use the activation mechanism, which is a mandatory feature to use Office, may balk and upgrade no further than Office 2000. That carries a different connotation, and Microsoft knows this. There ain't no free lunch.
Some people never learn.
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