Alberich wrote:
Please dish. I’d like to hear from you before I decide to purchase this upgrade.
Why would we need horror stories?
Is it not enough to know that the program cannot be installed without "permission" from the company that made the product, and which claims their right to control your use of it after you paid? Whether you install today, tomorrow or in three, five or seven or more years, you cannot legally do it without being dependent on their activation service and its availability.
Without the software, we can neither create, nor work with, nor access our own data. That means, any software company which wants to control their customers’ use of the programs effectively controls the whole machine.
What more do we need to know, in order to say no to the nonsense? It is a moot issue whether activation will be denied you tomorrow or in some years. The point is that with activation, you are forever dependent on the software company’s specific service in order to use your own computer for the use for which it was acquired.
I am afraid that no horror stories are needed.
Per Inge Oestmoen, Norway