Microsoft Kills Office Anti-Piracy Program

CWmike writes "Microsoft last week killed the Office Genuine Advantage anti-piracy service that first checked — and later nagged — whether customers were running legal copies of Office. ZDNet blogger Ed Bott first reported on Microsoft's move after a tipster pointed him toward a support document on the company's site. That Dec. 17 document simply noted that Office Genuine Advantage 'has been retired,' but offered no explanation. A Microsoft spokeswoman told Computerworld on Monday, 'The program has served its purpose and thus we have decided to retire the program.'"

Office Genuine Advantage has served its purpose?

[clone52431]

Did they mean there’s no longer any advantage to using Genuine Office?

It's only $149, why pirate?

[1800maxim]

Get MS Office Home & Student edition, pay a rather reasonable cost of $149 (CDN) and live and breathe free! This version will satisfy most people's needs with Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Re:Statistics

[sconeu]

Oh no... not again.

Re:It didn't work

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh, please. You call that citing?

[1] Mom, Your (2010), Report on the Effectiveness of OGA in a heterogenous business environment, Journ. of Sex. Interc., 1, 5-911.

See? Now everyone can look it up.