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.
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>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.
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>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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