Microsoft Turning Off Office
from the oops dept
When Microsoft said that they were going to use an anti-piracy system that would guarantee that you couldn't copy their software from one computer to another, some people got scared that problems would be caused if they made some change in the configuration to their own computer. Microsoft said that such things wouldn't be a problem. Apparently, they were wrong - and to the wrong person at the wrong time. David Coursey's version of Microsoft Office is threatening to stop working for him just as he's left for a business trip, with no way to get the CD-ROM it's suddenly requiring. Is it really a surprise that the software doesn't work as well as Microsoft said it would?
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