Vista - Microsoft to add more anti-piracy features to Office 2010

Microsoft is adding more “Genuine Advantage” features to its forthcoming Office 2010 release to make the product harder to pirate.
The company is planning to add new volume-licensing activation technologies to Office 2010 in an attempt to thwart the pirating of volume-license keys, Microsoft officials said via a press release. Microsoft also is adding more counterfeit-detection and tamper-resistant features to Office 2010, the press release says. It sounds like Microsoft will limit the ability of Office 2010 users to do an “Anytime Upgrade” to those users who those who allow Microsoft to do a Genuine Advantage scan:

“’While future (Office) consumer installations will closely resemble what we have today, additional advantages that customers can expect include the ability to issue product keys that upgrade the installed version to one that is incrementally feature-rich,’ says (Cori) Hartje, (senior director of Microsoft’s Genuine Software Initiative).”

I found more details about some of the planned Office 2010 Genuine Advantage volume-activation changes in an August 24 posting on the Office 2010 Engineering blog.

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