Head trick ;-)

KJ from AutoItScript forum wrote:

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=40977
Office 2007 beta Date Switch, Change system date to enable all 
features

"..
I don't know how many of you are using the Office 2007 beta 2 but I 
am and as of Feb 1st 2007, its been 'disabled'. You can make it run 
with all the features if you just change the system date as each 
program in the Office2k set starts up. You can still install Office 
2007 beta 2 technical refresh which is valid till March 31st 2007 and 
use this script to run it beyond that (until you get that machine 
with Vista and Office preinstalled!).

I've used AutoIt to automate the changing of the date. The date 
changes back to the current date once 10 seconds after the program's 
started up. Please note: In order not to complicate the script, I've 
assumed that nobody is going to open an Office 2007 application 
between 11:50:50 pm and 12:00:00 am.
.."

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It is weird thought, so I want to put it wise. It would be useful to 
install OpenOffice.org 2.1 and forget MS Office 20xx at all. 
OpenDocument (ODF) was  approved by ISO as ISO/IEC 26300. 
See it here:
 http://www.openoffice.org/

I'm using this great product with success during two years. I have 
written short course for Russian students about OpenOffice tools (5 
hours - Lectures&Labs).

People are looking for alternative instruments instead of version 
cracked or head trick mentioned. 

IE -> Mozilla, Outlook -> Thunderbird, MS Office -> OpenOffice (Star 
Office), ASP -> PHP, Visual C -> MinGW (GCC), VBScript -> AutoIt and 
so on. 

It's time to think about Linux.
 
Valery