Anthony Perez wrote to Bob Bainbridge

AP>Ditto. I swap a lot of parts from this machine and have already
AP>called in to  get a new key, since I past the 13'th install limit.

According to MS there is no limit to the number of times that you can 
activate the system.  It's just that within the 120 day limit of their 
data base (changes) that may require you to activate via phone instead 
of automatically processing on the net.

AP>If Symantec does the Activation thing, I'll be getting another
AP>program to do  the work.

The question is not "if".  They have already added an activation scheme 
to new copies of Norton Anti-Virus 2003.  So far they have not announced 
that they'll be doing the same thing to NU, Systemworks, or Ghost.  But 
I suspect they will since most versions of Systemworks include NAV.

MS started their activation scheme with Office 2000 copies sold abroad.  
They then added it to Office XP apps, and XP Home/Pro.  Intuit has 
started using activation in Turbo Tax and many versions of Quick Books 
and Quicken.

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