Hi, For Microsoft Office

Allnsmth — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:12:14 +0000

Hi,

For Microsoft Office 2007, follow these steps:

1) Start any office program.

2) In the Office Activation Wizard, click the “Activate by using Internet” option, and then click “Next”.

3) Click “Submit” to send your information to the Microsoft licensing servers.

4) Click “Finish”

JeevesBond — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:40:35 +0000

It honestly sounds like their product activation system is offline! There are two ways you can deal with this:

Phone Microsoft support and ask them if there's a manual activation procedure you can use.
Crack it.

Wouldn't recommend you do the second as it's probably illegal.

This is yet another thing that keeps me happily using Open Source/Free software: you install it and it just works. None of this EULA, nagware crap to wade through, where you could quite easily be agreeing to anything.

The other thing to remember is that it's Beta software, some service on MS' end being down isn't really suprising. You shouldn't be using Beta software in a production environment.