Did Microsoft buy Quark
or did Quark just decide to mock them with their Software Activation system.
A quote from a Macworld artical:
"Quark has long tried to reduce software piracy. After years of complaints, Quark finally stopped requiring a hardware dongle for versions of XPress 5 sold outside of the United States. With XPress 6.0, the company introduces a new protection system. After you install the software, you have five days to activate it via a telephone call or the Web; if you don't, it turns into a demo version that doesn't save documents and prints pages with a watermark.
Activation is not registration, and activating the software does not send any personal or identifiable information about you or your computer to Quark. However, it does associate your software's serial number to a unique code based on your particular hardware configuration. If you change your hardware (install RAM or buy a new computer), you have to reactivate the software."
Quark must be transforming itself in to the image of Microsoft hoping that Microsoft will save a dying company by aquiring them.
A quote from a Macworld artical:
"Quark has long tried to reduce software piracy. After years of complaints, Quark finally stopped requiring a hardware dongle for versions of XPress 5 sold outside of the United States. With XPress 6.0, the company introduces a new protection system. After you install the software, you have five days to activate it via a telephone call or the Web; if you don't, it turns into a demo version that doesn't save documents and prints pages with a watermark.
Activation is not registration, and activating the software does not send any personal or identifiable information about you or your computer to Quark. However, it does associate your software's serial number to a unique code based on your particular hardware configuration. If you change your hardware (install RAM or buy a new computer), you have to reactivate the software."
Quark must be transforming itself in to the image of Microsoft hoping that Microsoft will save a dying company by aquiring them.
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Originally posted by BuonRotto
Problem is, MS has been more successful at making people upgrade.
Maybe because MS actually produces upgrades.
Maybe because MS actually produces upgrades.
haha I don`t know that I would go that far..