Alan Zisman wrote to Charles Scaglione

AZ> CS> BTW, Microsoft Office application activations are quite
AZ> CS> different in that it allows for installing on two machines - one
AZ> CS> being a desktop and the other a mobile computer.

AZ>While that's what the license agreement says, whenever I've 
AZ>installed a copy of
AZ>Office XP on a second computer, I've had to phone into MS's
AZ>activation phone site, and explained the situation to an employee...
AZ>who then generated a 50-digit activation code and read it over the
AZ>phone to me.

AZ>It works, but it's not quite automatic!

Thanks for the info.  The way the EULA reads for MS Office one would 
think the activation process was automatic.  However, I suppose if it 
were automatic there would be many abuses.

cscag{at}charter.net

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