Want Microsoft Office 2010 for free and legally!

Want Microsoft Office 2010 for free and legally! Microsoft Office 2010 can be used for free for 180 days without entering an activation key. Microsoft confirms that a specific team is extending the grace period without activations. Office 2010 can be used for 180 days without entering a product activation key, news from Microsoft confirmed today. While Microsoft typically declares a 30-day time limit for users to activate their copies of company software, including Windows, a little-known command designed for corporate administrators can be used by anyone to "reset" the Office 2010 countdown up to five times. The company has confirmed that a short team, which is documented on its TechNet support site, is resetting the activation timer in Office 2010, which was officially unveiled but won't hit retail shelves until June 15th. Companies with volume licensing agreements can get Office 2010 now. Microsoft typically allows users to install and run Office or Windows for 30 days without requiring a product activation key - a 25-character string that proves the copy is legitimate. During the 30-day grace period, the software works as if it was activated. As the grace period decreases, messages appear on a screen prompting the user to activate their Office 2010 product. In Office 2010, messages change on the 25th day after installation. At some point, the title bar of Office 2010 also turned red. But by running the "ospprearm.exe" file, users can reset the activation time to 30 days. The file is located in the "% installdir% Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedOfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform" folder, where "% installdir%" refers to the "C:" system drive on most machines. The method can be used up to five times. If users reset at the end of each 30-day period, they can use Office 2010 for a total of 180 days free of charge without having to provide an activation key. According to a Microsoft spokeswoman who responded to questions via email, the feature targets enterprise administrators who use a single copy, or "image," to deploy a supported operating system and accompanying software to hundreds or thousands of PCs. While IT administrators prepare the installation, the activation clock continues to tick at this time. By the time the file is copied to the company machine, the counter may have reached the point where activation messages appear. "Assume you have 500 more computers and want to deploy 500 installations in six months from now," said a Microsoft spokeswoman. "You want to use the same installer. The problem here is that Office is smart enough to know that you first installed Office in May, but now it's November. So when users first download Office, they see a red a title bar that tells them not activated. This is a bad user experience. "ospprearm allows administrators to create an installation image, then reset the activation timer as a final step. “Now, whenever an administrator has new computers, he can only deploy an installation image. When users start Office for the first time, the activation timer starts, and users have 25 days before they see a dialog box telling them to activate. " While Microsoft has yet to retail Office 2010 and offer it to consumers, it has released a 60-day trial for Office Professional Plus 2010c on its TechNet site. The company also said it will ship trial versions of one or more retail editions this summer after Office 2010 goes on sale.Trials, including one now available, come with time-limited activation codes. The trial version of Office Professional Plus 2010 immediately requires an activation code and cannot be installed without it. By entering the free activation code they received before downloading and then refusing to automatically activate Office, users will end up with a copy that won't activate. Apparently the lifetime of the test copy can be extended too using the "ospprearm" method. This has not been tested yet, however. It is unknown if future trial releases of Office 2010 will also require an activation code before installation. Microsoft seems submissive to the fact of resetting the activation timer, which can be used by people other than IT administrators. “We allow five discharges for products,” a company spokeswoman said. "Of course, this can be abused to allow people to use Office for longer periods of time without stopping it, but this is an acceptable compromise." Technological sites and bloggers have regularly reported on methods to reset the activation timer. Last August, for example, the Windows Secrets newsletter published walk-through instructions for using the command line to add another 90 days to the Windows 7 30-day trial period. Two years earlier, a similar method appeared to extend the Windows Vista grace period. up to 120 days. In my opinion, all these are marketing ploys to attract additional users by putting them on the Microsoft needle in the current heightened competition of Microsoft with open office suites.