IP: MS to require mandatory registration for O2K

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 11:45:35 -0600 (CST)
> From: John Lyon <jelyon () suzie brick net>
> To: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
> Subject: MS to require mandatory registration for O2K
>
> May be of interest to IPers. entire article at:
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> http://live.altavista.com/scripts/editorial.dll?efi=981&ei=1493097&ern=y
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> Retail versions of Office 2000 will require a form of user registration --
> or the software will disappear.
>
> Lisa Bowman 02/10/00
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> New users of Office 2000 will get a taste of Microsoft Corp.'s latest
> anti-piracy measure: forced registration.
>
> The company is inserting a new feature into an upcoming release of its
> word processing software that will cause the product to malfunction if a
> person doesn't register after launching it 50 times. Users of volume
> licenses, such as those working at big companies, won't have to register.
> The so-called Registration Wizard doesn't require users to give any more
> information than their country of origin, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) said.
> And they can register anonymously through fax, phone, e-mail or snail
> mail.
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