Shoutbox

I only bought ONE license, a student license actually, but the CD-ROM is the same, only the price is different.

We need to activate it for each install here too, but it is normal to upgrade hardware and reinstall the OS on a PC, even MS understands that. But there is only a certain amount of activations allowed per license, so when you exceeds that amount, you need to call MS.

I believe they have some sort of database, so they immediately finds out if the code you try to use has been used dozens of times, and often. In that case it is most likely to believe that the key is illegal.

I assure you, consumers have so strong rights in Norway that even big Microsoft would have had trouble if a person with a legal, bought and valid copy of Win XP wasn't allowed to activate it.

OT: Norway is not a part of the European Union, but because we have signed an Economic Threaty with EU, a lot of regulations from the Union also affects Norway. The Norwegian Parliament actually turned down the MP3-regulations that came from the Union. I believe the EU's MP3-regulation is less strict than what you have in the states. But even so, our government said that the Norwegian people should have more rights digitally copying - but of course not distributing - music that they have bought! And in Norway it is actually legal to borrow music CDs from friends and copy them, as long as you don't widely distribute them, and as long as your friend doesn't make any money of them!