Seems to validate with Office 12 Beta 1 technical refresh too!

i guess it's a good thing for you that validation is not yet required;)

Interesting.....before we know it all sounds will require validation per WGA.

It is broke. ;)

It says my frontpage is legal copy but office itself (word, powerpoint, etc.) is illegal. Which is a lie. Both copies are legal.

As long as it work for people with legit copies that's good enough for me.

heh.  those using older versions of MS Office like Office 97 or 2000 are NOT, I repeat, NOT required to validate their copies of Office as according to the Genuine Microsoft Software FAQ page.  lucky me I'm still using Office 2000 SP3.

The more Microsoft keeps pissing customers off like this, the more they'll go down in flames. I'm glad I'm using OpenOffice at this point !

By the way, if I'm on a Linux computer and I simply want to download the updates, addons, and others for Office 2003 so that I can have it to install at my convenience should I decided to install Windows XP and Office 2003 at a later date, I don't think it should be a problem as long as M$ does not require that you have Office 2003 already installed. Let's hope M$ doesn't become more of a fringe lunatic though.

Hi,

This is only the start. Poor old Microsoft need to find a way of squeezing people for money. Unfortunately everything they do will just work into the hands of the open source community. Skinflints like me will jump ship, rather than be forced into expensive buggy upgrades. It is then only a matter of time.

Who'd have believed IBM would go the way it did!

Bad times ahead at Microsoft.

Their stock is spread too thin, many of their products out of control or loss making. They have upset just about everyone that counts.

WPA is surely an act of desperation.

I hear the sound of a bell tolling, and I think I know who it is for.

20 years of "pyramid" like sales..... now what!

Time to stitch up your best customers. Yep, way to go!

:-)

Contrary to what an earlier post said, the NEW Office Genguine Advantage does appear to INCLUDE Windows 2000. This is a change from the voluntary scan MS has had in place on another part its web site for some time, which scanned only XP and 2003 Office releases.

I have two full licenses to Office 2000 Premium and tested the system a file now marked as needing the OGA validation last night, by attempting a downlaod.

When I selected the file for download, a screen opened saying that the download requires OGA validation for Office 2000, Office XP, and Office 2003.

However, when I ran the validation the system noted that validation could not be completed because Microsoft was "unable" to collect enough information to validate the software.

A Help screen explained that this might be due to using an Office version prior to Office XP! This suggests that MS has added the Office 2000 scan as a bit of an afterthought, as I presume not all the code bits are in place to process Office 2000 validation as yet.

I got the same result when I tried my FULL (non-upgrade) license as well as my UPGRADE license for Office 2000 Premium Edition. I know that both licenses are valid, so I do not expect long-run problems.

ONE ISSUE: My Office discs were from the earlier period of Office 2000 when the CDs did not use Product Activation. Could it be that we legal users with Office 2000 CDs issued before Activation was rolled in are going to be excluded from updates and reinstalls? Sure hope not.


Your truly,

TRS80DotNot

re: office genuine advantage.  wondering why office 03 pro validates as genuine (code 100 using mgdiag) in Win2K Pro, but in XP, it doesn't ?? (get a code of 114).