On 10 Mar 2005 at 19:27, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > >> Noone will ever guarantee you that software x will run on a new > >> machine in x years. > > > > We're also talking about the same machine, after a HD crash, for > > instance. > > That is already no problem, at least on the Mac. I know because I had > that problem (well not a crash, but I changed my HD, and the same > authorization still worked). > > As for the PC side, I am not sure. It'S not impossible that they are > using the HD serial.
I don't know the details of MM's authentication scheme. But Microsoft uses an authentication scheme that is keyed to a combination of certain hardware devices. You can invalidate your authentication key by installing additional hardware on your PC (though for all practical purposes, it's only going to happen if you've cumulatively made more than one hardware change to your configuration -- i.e., a single hardware change may trigger it, but it's only going to happen if you already installed at least one other different hardware device). -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
