The Bootleg Office Saga Finale - Comparing To A Real Copy + Product Key Status

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Welcome to the series finale (probably) of the Bootleg Office Saga! I was recently sent a genuine copy of Office 2010 by a viewer, and today we're going to use it to compare with the 2 bootlegs.

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[richardeliukas]

Man flexing all of his microsoft office 2010 's

[dani.munoz.a]

Imagine being the guy who has to block the product keys
"Alright Jim, here's today's report. 50 keys from eBay to block"
"Just kill me already"

[gugajedi]

Hi Michael, this "customer satisfaction" is because people that will call will relate the problem with Microsoft not with the seller directly. My brother in law use to work for M$ Brazil, and this is in fact what Microsoft has decided to do... People buy pirate software online, looking like legit, and will call to complaint, to avoid the negative "Microsoft doesn't help/Microsoft products sucks" from customers it's just easier to activate it and have a good customer experience.

[DirtyBlueshirtAU]

19:03 - X16-11455-01 is the SKU for Office Professional 2010; X16-11459-01 is the SKU for Office Home & Student 2010

[OliveIsTyping]

This is one of the best tech channels on YouTube

[anurbanpenguin]

You got more out of Microsoft on how this system works than I did as a genuine Volume Licence customer.

We used to get physical copies of the products we had on volume licence and the keys were in the binder with them. One time our premises were broken into and this binder along with multiple, (thankfully encrypted) laptops, was stolen.

On contacting the volume licence centre they reissued all of our keys with new ones. I had a note of the old ones in an excel spreadsheet and periodically checked them in the volume activation management tool. They were never used, but they were also never deactivated and kept their full count of activations. So it seems Microsoft are pretty relaxed on this whole thing tbh.

Brian from tech yes city did an episode on buying cheap windows 10 keys and the outcome from Microsoft seemed to be "as long as it activates we don't really care". They already have their money I guess.

[AnnaVannieuwenhuyse]

The odd QR Code on the back of the box was a proprietary format developed by Microsoft for the same types of purposes QR codes and Aztec codes were made

[stonent]

On Office 2007 and 2010, the UPC bar code is on the seal covering the plastic box. So when you get the box they scan the top of it. Then you get it home, peel off the shrink-wrap, slide the plastic box out, and break the top seal, before you can open it. I installed dozens of Offices when I worked at Best Buy from 2008 to 2012 when people would buy them.

[randoschannel]

The end to one of the most interesting series on the channel

[MartyTuro]

03:30 oh god I remember a few years ago they really tried to make those weird QR codes into a big thing, guessing it didn’t work out

[wohlhabendermanager]

I remember a quote from Bill Gates where he said something along the lines of: People will pirate software no matter what, so we want them to pirate OUR software. We will get money from them in different ways sooner or later.

And I guess he had a point: If people pirate Microsoft products, then it still means they won't use the software of a competitor, so that's still one foot in the door. He also didn't mean to sue owners of private copies (like: You could still buy this from eBay or wherever in good faith, hence Microsoft just unblocking the keys), but he meant: Sooner or later those people, who pirated a Microsoft product, might buy another product from Microsoft. And this wouldn't happen if they didn't pirate Microsoft software before.

Anyway, tl;dr: I used to get product keys from MSDN-AA when I was a student, which was pretty cool. And I could get Office 2010 for like 50 bucks, which was an amazing price (keep in mind: This was when Office 2010 still was the newest version of Office).

But it didn't work quite as Gates planned for me: I switched over to Linux a few years ago. Now I only ever use Windows at work.

[robindieker]

I worked for the VL team at msft for some time and also got access to the tool the msft employee used. basically when installing a VL key there is basically a soft lock (like when you have 100 activations and used around 110 its ok) a hard lock (well, 130-150 activations) and then we are able to manually reset the key or even issue a new one (that only happens when you have a valid purchase invoice or sth to legitimate though).

[hatsumimiku]

3:24
That is actually Microsoft Tag or HCCB.
Its killed by Microsoft in August 19, 2015.
High Capacity Color Barcode (HCCB) is a technology developed by Microsoft for encoding data in a 2D barcode using clusters of colored triangles instead of the square pixels conventionally associated with 2D barcodes or QR codes.

[ukraineballaviation]

Imagine if in the next Bootleg's manual it would say: "SUFTAR" instead of software or saftware lmao

[superpou]

also the letter 'i' in the word office on the side is connected with 'f' on second bootleg but not on the first bootleg and the legit one

[castlejeta]

Man, I miss the clapper in the background. I love trying to find it in the video's like a where's waldo with clappers.

[theerrantwanderer]

Office Standard 2010 was also only obtainable via volume licensing, like Pro Plus. It is one of those editions no longer being sold today

[Slevin-Kelevra]

Another episode in the soap opera: Day's of our Office! 😁😁😁👍👍👍

[prycwrn]

"do not lend or make illegal copies" written on conterfeit discs.

ah, the irony.

[xKynOx]

I haven't had to phone Microsoft in years, it was always a pain when you had to reactive XP.