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Corporations Suffer Microsoft Activation Bug

Posted by michael on from the under-the-yoke dept.

Uncle Bob writes "Trustworthy Computing, eat your heart out! As of the 2003-04-14 update, people are reporting that Office 2000 SR1a is now asking to be "registered" again. And again, and again. Very little information has been posted on the traditional news sites (the only link I could find was The Register. Note - The Register's story is not quite accurate, but the registration bug is real. Our company with approx 80,000 PCs has been hit...."

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  1. Re:Solution. Nice question. by Erris · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    An insulting anonymous coward asks me, What color is the sky in your world, fanboy?

    It's a beautiful cloudless blue with a little atmospheric moisture giving it a characteristic whiteness in Baton Rouge today. I can tell you this because I'm not bussy fixing M$ crap today. It's so nice outside, I think I'll go for a bike ride this afternoon. Where do you want to go today, shill?

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    DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.