Re: Adobe adds product activation

["Steve Arrants" <stephena -at- compbear -dot- com>]

Churk Martin writes:
> 
> 
> "Andrew Plato" <gilliankitty -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote in message
> news:217003 -at- techwr-l -dot-  -dot-  -dot- 
> 
> > Companies like Adobe, Microsoft, IBM, etc. don't make strategic 
moves
> without
> > analyzing the impact. Since MS has been using online activation for 
a few
> years
> > now, there is data on how many users really abandon these products. 
While
> I do
> > not have direct access to such data, my sources tell me that there 
has
> been no
> > significant change in market share with the introduction of 
activation.
> 
> So how Do you explain Intuit with TurboTax?

They type of product activation that Intuit used is different from that 
used by Microsoft. Intuit used Macrovision technology that made changes 
to the user's hard disk and used system resources.  Microsoft's product 
activation isn't the same.

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