Perhaps he provided the link to buy a legitimate copy of Office since the OP
had a pirated copy?
Office XP Professional with FrontPage (that requires the proplus.msi file to
update) was a widely pirated enterprise only edition that leaked to the web
almost before it was released.
No system builder, legitimate that is, would have access to this copy since
it is an enterprise only license. If updating the code is impossible,
perhaps Microsoft finally did something about disabling it much like they
did for the corp.zip copy of Windows XP Professional that did not require
activation - again, a leaked and widely pirated enterprise only copy of
Windows XP Professional.
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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After furious head scratching, Lau Lei Cheong asked:
| No offense, just be curious to ask, does the link you provide have
| specific
| answer to the problem, or you're simply refer the OP to buy a new one?
|
| It seems that you provide this link for anyone with activation/CD-KEY
| problem.
|
| I agree that in this thread, the OP doesn't deserve a solution(the
| OP's not
| liable for installation of software he don't own). But I believe some
| previous thread deserves a more decent answer like: "You should
| consult MS
| customer service for this at: (e-mail address removed)" In case like
| missing
| labels, I don't think "buy a new one" is necessary, and it's majorly
| the "system builder"'s responsibility, not the customer's, to stick
| the license
| label on the case of machine. (according to the license agreement
| label
| printed on the box(I'm refer to the 3CD boxes for packing OS/Office
| OEM CDs)
| of OEM system builder kit) Legimate end users DO deserves a better
| tone, I
| think.
|
| "Carey Frisch [MVP]" <
[email protected]>
| ¼¶¼g©ó¶l¥ó·s»D:
[email protected]...
|| How to Buy Office 2003
||
http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/howtobuy/standard.mspx
||
|| --
|| Carey Frisch
|| Microsoft MVP
|| Windows - Shell/User
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|| news://msnews.microsoft.com/
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||
|| "Mario" wrote:
||
||| My hard drive just died on me a couple of days ago, I am almost
||| done re
|| doing
||| it but after installation of office xp, the validation code appears
||| to
|| be
||| already in use (of course I did it about a year ago). I did explain
||| this
|| fact
||| to the support girls in somewhere around the world, she expected my
||| to
|| know
||| how many copies of the cd were made, who did adquired it, in how
||| many computers was installed etc., My main problem now is thet the
||| company i
|| was
||| working for provided me with this tool, gave me a back up copy for
||| the
|| "just
||| in case" and know the ocmpany does not exist anymore. The support
||| person
|| then
||| could not give me any option even when the confimation on her
||| screen had
|| my
||| name addres e-mail etc. Any ideas what shoud I do?
