MS Office Genuine Advantage Validation Now Mandatory

**Strider** · 29-10-2006, 05:52 PM

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.
The move signals a tougher stance from Microsoft, which recently has begun to crack down on casual piracy of its products by customers. Those who have acquired pirated software without their knowledge, but agree to assist Microsoft in identifying where they obtained it from, would qualify for a legitimate copy of the software. Those who do not agree to help would have to pay the full fee to obtain new software.

http://www.betanews.com/article/MS_O...ory/1161976219

**X-Caliber** · 29-10-2006, 06:08 PM

Mandatory - ???

Within no time Patch or crack will be ready for this too....
Infact i just got my eyes on one right now.

**bakuryu** · 29-10-2006, 06:25 PM

i rarely use online templates

thomasdsouza · 30-10-2006, 07:00 PM

Quote:

By ymhatre:
Within no time Patch or crack will be ready for this too....
Infact i just got my eyes on one right now.

Yup.. they said WMP11 cannot be played without a genuine XP... but crack is already available and so is true for other software...
where there is will there is a way

**Strider** · 31-10-2006, 09:30 AM

There are thousands od legit users out there my friends. For them this news is relevant .

29-10-2006, 05:52 PM	#1
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31-10-2006, 09:30 AM	#5
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