I bought a copy of Office XP for students and teachers as I am a good boy and only run legal software. I reformatted my PC the other day and now I
cant activate my copy of office as it says its already installed on another computer 
. Its not, I have the original discs and I havent copied
them and given them to anyone.
I have reformatted before and reinstalled and its not been a problem.
The same thing better not happen to my copy of XP next time I reformat or I shall be mightly pi55ed off.
I have tried to email microsoft support, but every time i try it says the request cant be carried out, try again. I am assuming its not working as
they think its a copied product.
Grrr
Does it not give you the option to actvate by phone? We us ethe Microsoft action pack on test machines and always have this problem. We just call the
activate over the phone number and some nice person in India gives us an activation code.
Mac
Flak,
how about just generating another key for your copy? Its not really software piracy if you already bought it once!
Geoff
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Originally posted by viatron
Does it not give you the option to actvate by phone? We us ethe Microsoft action pack on test machines and always have this problem. We just call the activate over the phone number and some nice person in India gives us an activation code.
Mac
I have to activate my copy each time i need to reload it, It's been done that way about 6 times now, one for each Hard drive i have blown !!
They are good on the phone though, no checks just your word on it not being copied !! 
Jason
[Edited on 25/6/05 by Deckman001]
Yep. Very good on the phone. All sorted and didnt take long at all. Thats what I like
But the whole thing is a racket it is time MS were brought in to line. Piracy is a problem but it wouldn't exist if software prices weren't
licensed extortion.
I just love Linux and GPL software, the only reason I have a Windows pc in the house is we use Access for one particular job as soon as Knoda can do
everything we use access for M$ is out he door.
why not just downloadf some heavily CRACKED copies of any software you need yo can get anything for free lol ok so its illegal but so long as ure
doing using it to make alot of money or making more illegal copies and selling them on they dont usually notice lol and as for the cd key being
aslready registered you can get more cd keys then you will ever need from a simple google search
dont be so worried about wots legal and whats not lol hehe im saying this but as it happens i dont actually have any copied or illegal software on
this computer wow i feel so goo d
Don't let your dad read what you just wrote !! 
Jason
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Originally posted by Andrew+dad
why not just downloadf some heavily CRACKED copies of any software you need yo can get anything for free lol ok so its illegal but so long as ure doing using it to make alot of money or making more illegal copies and selling them on they dont usually notice lol and as for the cd key being aslready registered you can get more cd keys then you will ever need from a simple google search
dont be so worried about wots legal and whats not lol hehe im saying this but as it happens i dont actually have any copied or illegal software on this computer wow i feel so goo d
I use OpenOffice <www.openoffice.org>.
It may not be perfect, but it does what I need it to do, including reading (and writing!) MS-style .doc and .xls files.
Oh, and by the way its free and legal.
[Edited on 26-6-2005 by kestrel1596]
I agree. go with OpenOffice. looks remarkably like Micro$h!t. works pretty damn good.
Even in Linux Open Office/Star Office runs like treacle on a mid winters day in Murmansk -- trouble is it is written in java. The first thing I do
after a Linux install is dump it and install Abiword and Gnumeric or KOffice.
Abiword is available for windows