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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Paul Engel who wrote (94623)2/22/2000 10:12:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis  Read Replies (3) of 1573841
 
Paul,
RE:"My Sony laptop - bought in August, 1997 - came with an Application Recovery CD and a System Recovery CD - which sounds like what you are describing.
It sounds like this is Microsoft's way of doing things - not the notebook makers.
Fortunately, I have never had to use either CD on my Sony.
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Speaking of Microsoft. Apparently MS has now enacted a mandatory registration of Office 2000 or any of it's components inc. Frontpage. If you don't want to register it you get 50 uses and then it quits unless you register. I had to call. They ask for a software code and a serial number and give you a confirmation code. You can just register over the net too. Apparently, they tried this is Australia and decided to impliment in the US and who knows where. Also there is a number in the software that doesn't copy if you burn a CD or download it over the net. Hence you can't register it.
Needless, to say the person on the other end of the phone said about half the people calling in were POed big time. I suppose because they
don't like to register a program they just bought if they don't want to. MS doesn't even want your name. What I'm wondering is whether there is some kind of watermark being put on all Office documents?
I can understand MS's anti-piracy concerns but mandatory registration is no going to go over well.

Jim
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