MS Office Genuine Advantage Now Mandatory

Downloading updates and using Office Online templates will now prompt you to verify if your MS Office is genuine.

Want to use the extra features within Office? Be prepared to verify that your copy of the productivity suite is genuine. While the so-called Office Genuine Advantage has been around since April, Microsoft did not make it mandatory until Friday. [MS Office Validation Now Mandatory - BetaNews]

Microsoft already implemented this on its operating systems way back, and it is inevitable that they would do the same with their productivity suite.

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