Having no choice, I did, but it taught me an important lesson about software "ownership" and the rights and expectations of those who do business with companies like Intuit, like Microsoft, and others who, in the name of "security" and "copy-protection" are stripping away basic rights of legitimate users to use their legally purchased software and hardware. This was not an arragement I agreed to when I bought the software. If I wanted access to MY data using MY software on MY computer, I was going to have to pay them AGAIN. Maybe unintentional extortion, but extortion.
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If I wanted a new serial number that worked, I would have to buy the new version.
know what they told me? They don't support my version of QuickBooks anymore. So I called Intuit to get a working serial number. I tried again and again, always to get the same response. Oh really? It was just fine when I entered it the first time. Then QuickBooks goes to match that against some nebulous database elsewhere on the net, and returns an error message: this serial number cannot be authenticated.
So when I went to open QuickBooks it acted like it had just been installed and asked for my serial number. When I upgraded my OS several months prior, I backed up everything to another drive, performed the OS upgrade, and copied everything back. Now, so there's no misunderstanding, I *puchased* this software about two years previous and was using it on my Mac G4 computer all that time. Last year, as I went to start preparing my taxes, I opened up my business' QuickBooks file so I could generate reports for my accountant. Here's an example, not MS-based, but a true story and one that illustrates (I think) the GP's point.
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