17-IX-2009.

Installing Excel. Just any random Excel? No, among all them Excels, it had to be m$ Excel. Don't fall for fakes...

Of course, knowing who I'm dealing with, I set my firewall tight, and of course it has to call home even before it asks for registration. Which it calls activation, they never use regular words. Actually, it's not the installer that calls, it's its runtime, what the setups created in m$'s tools use. Which means that even when Feds setup (for runtimes only, though, my updates are built in Inno Setup Builder), the m$ gets notified. Scum.

During the installation it crapped a lot, kept forgetting where the seedee was, tried to call home few more times... but I didn't let it until it asked for reg... activation.

I bought this (125$!) once when I had to do something for Paige four years ago, I think we were still in A-burg, and now I needed it for work... Which I could have done on Jan's server, but thought it would be easier this way. And of course the installation forgot everything that once was on the previous windowses, total amnesia each time.

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Mentions: Annenburg (A-burg), Feds, Jan Brenkelen, Majkrosoft (m$), Paige S Stevenson, in serbian