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Microsoft Product Activation is a DRM technology used by Microsoft Corporation in several of its computer software programs, most notably its Windows operating system and its Office productivity suite. The procedure enforces compliance with the program's end-user license agreement by transmitting information about both the product key used to ...
Office Assistant. The Office Assistant is a discontinued intelligent user interface for Microsoft Office that assisted users by way of an interactive animated character which interfaced with the Office help content. It was included in Microsoft Office for Windows (versions 97 to 2003), in Microsoft Publisher and Microsoft Project (versions 98 ...
Office 97 was the first version of Office to include the Office Assistant. In Brazil, it was also the first version to introduce the Registration Wizard, a precursor to Microsoft Product Activation. With this release, the accompanying apps, Project 98 and Publisher 98 also transitioned to fully 32-bit versions.
The instructions for invoking the Easter egg vary depending on the version: [citation needed] 1.xx: Press Alt + ⇧ Shift + Esc + ↵ Enter. 1.01 and later: Hold Alt then Esc, release Alt then Esc, press Esc twice then press ← Backspace. 2.0 and later: Press F1, F5, F9, F4 and ← Backspace in rapid succession.
Office 97 Powered by Word 98 (8.5) Word 98 was released only in Japanese and Korean editions. First version to contain Outlook 98 in all editions and Publisher 98 in the Small Business Edition. June 7, 1999. Office 2000 (9.0) Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher, Small Business Tools, FrontPage, PhotoDraw.
This article is about the concept of product activation in general, which is used in more than just Microsoft products. Microsoft Product Activation is a specific incarnation of this concept. — TKD::Talk 06:28, 5 September 2007 (UTC) Oppose per TKD. Un-redirect and expand MPA by all means, but the article currently relates mainly to the ...
Product activation is a license validation procedure required by some proprietary software programs. Product activation prevents unlimited free use of copied or replicated software. Unactivated software refuses to fully function until it determines whether it is authorized to fully function. Activation allows the software to stop blocking its ...
This is different from Microsoft Product Activation in that activation is required to use the software and is enforced at the software level, whereas validation ...