Microsoft: Office 2011 can no longer be enabled for the Mac

[Thomas S.]

Microsoft: Office 2011 can no longer be enabled for the Mac

Is this the future also for XP / older Office suites for Windows?

Microsoft: Office 2011 can no longer be enabled for the Mac (in DEU)

[Tripredacus]

Has there been any indication that Activation Servers have been disabled for any other products outside of Mac versions?

[Mathwiz]

Kind of sets a bad precedent: the whole justification for "activation" was to prevent casual copying; i.e., installing your copy of Office on more than one machine.

Maybe we should have seen this coming, but supposedly, activation wasn't intended to force you to upgrade your software when you bought a new machine and wanted to transfer old software to it.

[i430VX]

8 hours ago, Tripredacus said:

Has there been any indication that Activation Servers have been disabled for any other products outside of Mac versions?

I just activated Publisher 2002 for Windows using the internet just fine...