George and Hank - correct.... there was NO activation over the
Internet... you just installed it and TA DA!
In a message dated 11/22/2014 9:58:22 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
ka3hsw@att.net writes:
Perhaps those pre-2000 versions did not require activation after
installation... I don't have anything that old to try.
Office XP and Office 2003 both did, and can no longer be activated.
George, KA3HSW
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hank Garretson" <w6sx@arrl.net>
To: "RTTY Reflector" <rtty@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2014 5:15 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] OT Computer Assistance
> Hmmmmmm. I must be doing something wrong. I bought a Gateway 8.1 computer
> in August 2013. Installed Microsoft Office 97 Professional. Fifteen
months
> later it still launches and works fine.
>
> 73,
>
> Hank, W6SX
>
> On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 10:11 AM, George Henry <ka3hsw@att.net> wrote:
>
>> The problem he will run into with an older version of Microsoft Office
is
>> that, although it might be able to run in Compatibility Mode, it is
>> unsupported by Microsoft and he will not be able to *activate* it after
>> installing it under Win 7 or 8, so it will "expire" after a limited
>> number
>> of launches. Ran into this at my office... although we had over 120
>> copies
>> of Office Basic 2003 that came with the XP computers we had to replace
>> (medical clinic: XP is not HIPAA compliant now that it's unsupported),
>> they
>> can't be activated on the new Win 7 computers, so we have to buy new
>> versions for all those machines!
>>
>>
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