Validating the Bootleg Office Product Keys - Are They Genuine After All?

It's finally time to see if the product keys that came with the bootleg copies of Microsoft Office are genuine or not. Let's find out!

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[moki]

Fun fact: The VLK key shows "MAK Count" as 0, meaning that no further activations are possible. But as I mentioned in another comment on the previous video, the phone activation service is very forgiving with older Microsoft software (think anything before Windows 7) and oftentimes lets you activate pirated or leaked keys or even keys of leaked Windows beta versions, whereas the online activation (which for Office 2010 btw should still work on Windows 7 and newer) is not forgiving at all and does not allow such shenanigans. That's most likely why you were able to activate your copy but others were not as lucky as seen on ebay, most likely because they tried the online activation on their Windows 7 or 10 machines.

[maxiderp]

Who needs Star Wars when you have the Bootleg Office 2010 Saga

[coffeemakerbottomcracked]

Plot twist: The Ultimate PID checker steals those Serial keys.

[jdatlas]

Side note, MSDN is sort of still around - it’s called Visual Studio Subscription now, I think, but the services are pretty much the same as they’ve ever been.

[snifflmup]

next episode: bootleg office 2010 comes to life and tries to kill me

[SmallPersonRoo]

I have a personal Office story :
I found someone selling Office 2016 online ‘new’ for only $60. So I purchased it, waited 3 weeks, and got nothing but a slip of paper in the mail. The paper said to text a number and I would be sent a product key. I texted the number, they sent the key, and it worked. Strange how i had to text him. He could have just written the key on the paper. And by the way, this listing was on Amazon. Crazy.

EDIT: I went back to my orders to post a link to it, and found that the page on Amazon got taken down.

[Sherry_Ci]

How many fonts can you use in a single title sequence?
Michael: YES.

[mattelder]

TechNet keys were often listed as "retail" even though they really weren't. I still have an old TechNet key for Office 2010, I'll check it with the program and see what it returns.

[kyouhyung]

One of the theories I heard about the digital key listings (ones that send you the key via message or email, and not a physical bootleg copy) is that they are purchased using stolen cards or gift cards, often as a result of something like a common tech support scam, and they are essentially using the keys as a money laundering scheme. So the keys themselves may originally be valid, but could be blocked anytime if they are identified as such.

[hawk_]

I suspect that the "retail" key type here has the same *technical* meaning as it normally does for retail keys and is what the MSDN/Technet subscribers received even though the Pro Plus version was never sold in retail channels.

[krzbrew]

I think, the detection of the key as Microsoft Office Professional Plus Retail is quite simple. The program does not check Microsoft's servers (look, even the author's name is a nickname). The key/serial or whatever detection algorithm has been published, reversed and or leaked long time ago. This program just uses it the good way - and tells what it sees and can extract from the serial number. There is a part responsible for product type, another for license type etc.

Other programs use it the bad way - that is, there are key generators and activators. Probably your Professional Plus Retail key is the result of such a key generator. The installer checks whether the serial corresponds to the distribution channel for which it was generated, as well for the product type. Whereas Microsoft did not release any Professional Plus Retail products, probably it is blocked in all of the official setup programs.

P.S. This is IMHO. I am just a youtube user as you all.

[flippy]

As for why they picked 2010 out of all the versions, it's simple really. It's the last good office version ever for basic uses. It's extremely lightweight, supposed to be easy to install, and the best of all it works in every single windows version from XP to W10 and beyond.

[jayzoredstone]

Next episode: Installing Office 2010 on $5 Windows 98 PC

[MegaLIzardlicker]

This has been an interesting and different series

[teacup]

They probably just stole the keys from Google. Not hard to do.

[nezbednik]

why do they do this? why specifically office 2010? this is so stupid and i love it, :)

[techcrafter_jw]

These MS Office videos are epic! Please continue this bootleg stuff!

[PainweedingPills]

Looking forward for more Scam Investigation aka Saftware videos! Keep up the good work!

[issacortiz]

So trained by youtube to expect a sponsor segue when you started talking about unique passwords😂 great video!

[CharcoalProduction]

MSDN is actually here they have refreshed page design