nsane.forums Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 Microsoft has seemed to throw in the towel on Microsoft Office, that is when it comes to validating your Office program to verify its legitimacy. Late last week, according to zdnet.com and confirmed through a KB 917999, Microsoft has shut down the program to check whether your version of Office is genuine or not. The silent shutdown of the program by Microsoft was unannounced, but confirmed through the KB article. Microsoft Office will now allow anyone who downloaded templates or pass through add-ins that require the genuine advantage to be completely bypassed, allowing both legitimate and illegitimate versions of Office to download and use extras. The sudden and silent retirement of Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) means that Microsoft is giving up to prevent piracy of its community-made and in-house developed templates and other downloads. This still doesn't mean users can install any copy of Microsoft Office, as it still requires you to enter your 25-character key and verify it through Microsoft's activation server. Office Genuine Advantage does not affect Windows Genuine Advantage, which is still an on-going program and required to install some Microsoft programs like Security Essentials. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted December 20, 2010 Administrator Share Posted December 20, 2010 If they are not planning any other tool, this is a win. :win: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atasas Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 They are about to change whole concept in my mind- cloud based licenses/permissions etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted December 20, 2010 Administrator Share Posted December 20, 2010 Yup. And that means hard time for us. But never the less, the open source options are always available. :smartass: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 The masses will probably jump to cloud based computing, but this will be easily resolved for 'us people'. We will just use a normal (old OS) with either added functions from the cloud based OSes or just some kind of virtual implementation of a cloud based OS.No biggy :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Owl Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Good news for all us pirates. :pirate: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oZ. Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Good news for all us pirates. :pirate: :pirate: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HX1 Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Not like it mattered anyway.. I don't of many people who would use a Template other than the basic ones available to get guidelines.. Anything else you need is well available in one form or the other everywhere.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marik Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 best thing they've done since XP and W7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*dcs18 Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Never had to worry about petty matters like OGA due to the efforts of Supremo Phantom. ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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