[RTTY] OT Computer Assistance

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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 at 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 at arrl.net>
To: "RTTY Reflector"  <rtty at 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 at 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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