IP: Microsoft does it yet again (fwd)

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

David Farber's frustration at having to buy a new copy of MS Office, when
he upgrades his laptop.   Jamie


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Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 19:44:15 -0500
From: Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
To: ip-sub-1@admin.listbox.com
Subject: IP: Microsoft does it yet again

I have Office 2000 and had installed it on a laptop. I have just 
decommissioned the laptop and re-installed it on a new one. It, Office 2000 
insists on me registering it and warns me that unless I do it will stop 
working but when I try to register it, it says it is registered to another 
machine and refuses to re-register it.

While I would never accuse MS of such greed and evil -- I must be just 
misunderstanding what is going on, I am left with , again I assume a 
mistaken impression, that Ms insists that not only do you have to buy 
windows each time but office etc.

I must be wrong -- right??

Dave


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