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Pink And Professional by Louise Roe
Microsoft seems to refuses now to activate the product after a re-install, as I have now learned in two specific cases. To be able to use Microsoft Office after a new installation, it must be activated by Microsoft. Should be no problem for a regular buyer who owns a key.
Unfortunately, some users who bought Microsoft Office , haven’t calced without Microsoft. The company has simply switched off the activation servers that are required for Office activation. German blog reader Tobias has now had the unpleasant experience that this required activation no longer works — neither the online activation, nor a telephone activation, as he shares on Twitter.
The German tweet above says, he could not activate Microsoft Office Professional Plus , either online nor via telephone activation. German blog reader Karl says in the following reply tweet: No longer works. Only MAK and KMS left. Welcome to the end of support. Tobias answered that he uses a volume license with a multi-activation key MAK for his Microsoft Office So there, too, activation seems to be denied by Microsoft.
Notes: Activating a KMS key against a Key Management Server probably still works, as I interpret above tweet right. It could also be a Linux-based KMS server, as I read on Facebook at a feedback to my German copy of this article. And a Facebook user wrote that an activation with C2R still works — but I’m not sure if a key can be used for an MSI installation with Click-to-Run C2R.
I had already addressed the issue of Microsoft Office activation within my German blog blog in People had to do a phone activation because the online activation didn’t work anymore. In mid-July , German blog reader Steffen left this comment on the German blog post Office Telefonaktivierung eingestellt? After 10 minutes of discussion on the phone with an [MS] employee [it] was made clear to me that an activation is no longer possible under any circumstances. The reason was the end of support and support also means activation.
I am now sitting on several Prof and Business licenses that I can no longer use, but were officially purchased years ago for the company. This again shows the ugly side of Microsoft Office: If Microsoft thinks that the support has expired, they are able to refuse the re-activation — so the product can no longer be used.
The phone activation example cited above was likely a retail package, the Twitter example referenced above was related to a MAK key.
Question: are there similar affected parties — and what type of license retail or volume could no longer be activated? It may be that only MAK keys are affected, while Office can still be activated against a Key Management Server KMS key required.
And the ClickRun C2R packages are also supposed to still work regarding activation. And as a follow-up question: There is the possibility to backup an activation file and save it back after a new Office installation.
What is the experience, does this work reliably? Similar articles Office Telephone activation is no longer supported error Warning: Microsoft Outlook app breaks company security Office Telephone activation is no longer supported error Microsoft’s obscure ‘Self Service for Mobile’ Office activation Office can’t be uninstalled completely Uninstall Office and install Office If Microsoft thinks it can play God, that is a warning to us all.
Companies which treat customers with disdain are on a road to perdition. I was able to activate Microsoft Access with a volume license today via the standard ‘attempt to activate my product online’ checkbox.
Got also the feedback from a reader, that setting date and time back to brought back the possibility to activate Office This sucks BIG TIME, I’m still foaming at the mouth.
Neither nor work anymore. I regret I bought , foolishly thinking I’d be safe for good, but that still resides on my active laptop yet. This is SO the last office product I ever bought. I shall get a good freeware now, thanks for nothing.
I’ve had trouble activating Office several times. Activation didn’t work from the GUI, but in my case it always worked from the command line. I am in the same boat here. I had to reimage my PC and when I reinstall the program, I cannot activate it. Are you aware that there is the same problem with Office as well?
Suddenly there appeared the message of “office not activated” and trying to reactivate it, it doesn’t activate with error 0xB. I will never buy Microsoft products again. They really steal from you. Had to reinstall operating system now left without office. Wonder how they would feel if the Shoe was on the other foot.
Their foot. Bill Gates needs more money so they want to charge you monthly for everything. Just stop you in your tracks. I would go without a computer before I would pay microsoft monthly. I paid for office how dare they play these games. Linux is looking better all the time. I hope the public Wises up and stops buy their junk. That would bring control back to us. OK don’t support it but let us use our paid for product. We as a people must put a stop to this. Boycott Microsoft!
Boycott them now. Teach them that their customers makes them what they are. Without us they are nothing but a bankrupted business. There are other options. Start taking those options today!
Or we will become money slaves to big tech companies. They are souring the computer world with their greed! How will I get my letters out now on time. Bye bye Microsoft. Looking for other offices and operating systems. Tired turning the clock back to and I read that this helped getting office to work on this site. Now wants me to find my cradentials that went with the system restore.
Pop up says “Microsoft Office Home and business can not verify the license for this product. You should repair the office program by using control panel” credential manager in control panel no windows credentails ether. So even denied us windows. This goes farther than just Office.
When you click on add a windows or business credintail it wants a internet or network address, user name and pass code. So much for those who paid through the noise for a computer, windows and office.
Microsoft is the worst company I know to buy anything from. THEY SAID WINDOWS 10 WOULD BE TBE LAST WINDOWS TO GET US TO BUY IT. THEN THEY COME OUT WITH WINDOWS You can’t trust them. They take your property without due process. Is this even legal? If you bought clothes from a store and they opened your closet and spray painted all the clothes you bought from them.
Look for ways to crawl out of the control of abusers. We made Microsoft what it is and if we the people of the earth stop caving to their over reach they will bankrupt and new blood will make new operating systems and form a relation of trust with their customers. Why not alow users who paid for their products to use them. A company should try to show you any benifits of getting the new systems and office software etc instead of forcing you out of what you own to force you to buy more of their stuff.
Don’t cave in if enough people have been hurt by this greed and sociopathic company then we can show them who is really in control. Used to work very well in the past. We would boycott business that were not right or mistreating the public or their employees and before to long they would beg us to stop the boycott. They were suddenly promising to change their evil ways.
If we give away or power we will surtenly suffer the Rose of Stinch. We are entering a Recession and if our rep doesn’t change course we will be in a depression. How then is Microsoft a company that cares after a shut down pandemic. Economic trouble pulling this money game on its customers. I refuse to give up my power to them. If I never buy a Microsoft product again it would be to soon.
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