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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. Again?!?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mother I have not failed you!

  2. office? hah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    shouldnt someone be praising some LUNIX alternative?

    damn kids and their LUNIX. fp maybe.

  3. My 1st XP BSOD - data saved by Linux by ch-chuck · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Last Friday I started up my home XP box for the usual morning rounds, and when it was up the mouse and keyboard didn't work. This happens ocassionally and I just turned it off as usual. When it came back up it started to boot then got a big blue STOP screen claiming Unmountable Disk! I took it into work and tried recovery, reinstall, everything on the XP install CD said it was just an inaccessible disk and would have to be reformatted. Before taking that extreme measure (there was some stuff I didn't want to lost and hadn't backed up) I thought what the heck, lets boot the Linux disk in there - so I did, built the NTFS module, mounted the disk and was able to read it just fine! Recovered all my movies and sounds w/ no problem.

    My disks are: hda1 - linux boot, small; hda2 8Gb FAT32 to share files; hdb CD/DVD writer; hdc Windows XP; hdd1 Linux root. My Asus A7V has an option on boot up you can select which drive to boot, so it can start either XP or RH Linux 7.

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  4. Movies and Sounds! by NetJunkie · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Thank God Linux helped you save your porn and mp3s!

  5. Re:This is only the beginning. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    More like

    'Assume the position!'

  6. 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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