Another Microsoft Office Bootleg - Unboxing & Scam Investigation

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2 weeks ago, we took a look at a bootleg copy of Microsoft Office 2010 sent to me by a viewer. I had purchased a "genuine" copy on eBay that I intended to use for comparison. Well as it turns out, that "genuine" copy is actually another bootleg. And it finally showed up. So let's explore it!
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@TadanoHitohito 3 года назад

The Microsoft Saftware Genuine Authority has given you the gift of high-performance and secure.

@rogehmarbi 3 года назад

Very Cringe If you'd remove the period at the end you'd keep me hanging

@elweewutroone 3 года назад

Microsoft®️ sa ftware *Genuine* authority Security Stable Reputation

@trinity6880 3 года назад

lmao

@kaitlyn__L 3 года назад

@@instinctivelycorner ＳＡＦＴＷＡＲＥ (ｓａｆｔｗａｒｅ）

@kaitlyn__L 3 года назад

@@instinctivelycorner ツッ

@tboneanimatetwoaccount2094 3 года назад

Michael before opening the box: "I do believe this could be legitimate, but I'm not sure." Michael after opening the box: "Nope nope nope this is a bootleg."

@jaylenfan 3 года назад

GoAnimate

@Linus7671DX 2 года назад

TBONE? YOU WATCH MICHAEL MJD TOO?

@tboneanimatetwoaccount2094 2 года назад

@@Linus7671DX Yes I do. I'm a big fan of computers and operating systems. It's what I want to do going further in life.

@Linus7671DX 2 года назад

@@tboneanimatetwoaccount2094 OMG me too. I love computers and operating systems. I even use VirtualBox to emulate Linux distros.

@olepigeon 3 года назад

Here's my theory: They're taking all the Windows and Office OEM bundle license stickers stuck on those ewaste PCs that we sent to China. They record the serial numbers, then resell them bundled with a bootleg copy of Office or Windows. They're valid serials, but you always have to call-in to activate them. The next step is to use Magic Jelly Bean and extract the generated valid serial number so you don't have to call-in to activate it again. Copy that serial number down, and you now have a working copy of Office or Windows.

@MatthewCobalt 3 года назад

That has tobe the reason, as the keys on the box themselves are no longer even applicable anymore.

@espertalhao041 3 года назад

Another option is someone that just generated a key with a keygen.

@DarkGreenMagician 3 года назад

@@espertalhao041 Keygens can’t be activated over the phone...

@wadmodderschalton5763 2 года назад

In other words: Defund Chinese bootleggers. (19:27)

@elbiggus 2 года назад

Back in the day the company I was working for replaced a bunch of random Win95 machines with a fleet of standardised Comaq Deskpros running XP, but before deployment they all got re-imaged and activated with a volume license key. All the original XP product keys were therefore going "spare" so I had a text file with hundreds of the things; they came in pretty handy over the years!

@PainweedingPills 3 года назад

Petition to name Bootleg Software as "Saftware"!

@SECONDQUEST 3 года назад

Lemme just boot up "Winders", it's my favorite Saftware.

@bubgamingandvlogs3870 3 года назад

Im signing up

@moelester7527 3 года назад

@@SECONDQUEST isn't that an oparating sistam?

@ukraineballaviation1483 3 года назад

It's like Engrish and English

@adzimrosly6905 3 года назад

also, don't forget, *sofuare* as well!

@OtterlyInsane 3 года назад

Could be a hacked or bought eBay account, hence the change in feedback. You sometimes see scam mails looking to buy eBay accounts with good feedback

@simonro9168 3 года назад

Either that, or a seller who bought the Office discs wholesale, unaware that it was a bootleg. That wouldn't explain the long shipping though, so your theory is more likely. Edit: nvm hadn't finished the video yet, seems a lot less likely with that many lmao.

@MichaelMJD 3 года назад

This is discussed near the end of the video!

@David-fm6go 3 года назад

@@MichaelMJD I ran into this with video cards. You find old accounts, great feedback etc selling dozens of 1080 tis for dirt cheap prices. Then the listing and sometimes the account will be removed by ebay and the item is never shipped. I think ebay has been substantially compromised by scammers in this fashion the last few months.

@wadmodderschalton5763 2 года назад

eBay should crack down on these bootleg copies of Microsoft Windows & Microsoft Office by banning these accounts based on negative reviews from customers who bought these bootlegs. 17:30

@dkashvideos 2 года назад

@@wadmodderschalton5763 problem is if these are hacked accounts then the people who originally had the account would not have an account anymore

@TheSleepyCraftsman 3 года назад

If they were smart bootleggers, they could have replaced the support phone numbers with their own in an attempt to do some phishing. Makes even more sense if they purposefully put a disk that won't install. They could add an official looking statement saying to "Don't return if you have issues. Please call support first!".

@Yellowpick10 3 года назад

They might take it down, though. Ebay or Amazon might get a complaint about it, and they would investigate.

@xelop5648 2 года назад

Don't give them ideas

@nikkiofthevalley Год назад

@@Yellowpick10 They'd just make a new account. It is much easier than it should be to avoid takedowns from Ebay and Amazon.

@davidlee9074 3 года назад

Fun fact: that “security stable reputation” wording was actually used by Microsoft on packages targeted at China market at this time period. I’ve never seen these words on packages for other markets though. I guess whoever made this bootleg copy just did an OCR and then fed the Chinese results into an online translator. Also, that is a volume licensing edition of Office, which is a popular target of piracy because its activation scheme is more easily bypassed than the retail editions.

@hammondOT 6 месяцев назад

You don't have to say "Fun fact". We aren't on reddit.

@Minix_07 5 месяцев назад

@@hammondOTreddit didn't invent fun facts 💀💀💀

@Win98Beta. 4 месяца назад

@@hammondOTbuddy, reddit did not invent fun facts. 💀💀💀

@hammondOT 4 месяца назад

@@Win98Beta. Redditors love adding "fun fact" to their posts.

@AriannaEuryaleMusic 3 года назад

At least you got a Physical CD and a Box, Microsoft doesn´t even include that anymore.

@wadmodderschalton5763 2 года назад

Microsoft needs to take these unofficial box art rips some legal action. (1:06)

@silverballstudios3578 Год назад

They use USBs

@gamergod9182 3 года назад

the fact that the DVD looks genuine makes me think it just is. they are probably mispressings or second grade that got sorted out, and some guy just fished them out of the bin before they could get destroyed and eventually they ended up in some counterfeit operation.

@ar4t1c33 3 года назад

I love this bootleg copy series! I would love to see more of this :)

@doramilitiakatiemelody1875 3 года назад

Same!

@PlanetComputer 3 года назад

@laurendoe168 3 года назад

Not me - when you've seen one.... you've basically seen them all. These have so many red flags it gets boring as they get listed.

@kev1354 3 года назад

@justaPERSON me three

@thishandlesucks-webcookie 3 года назад

S O F U A R E Sa ftware *LOL*

@ShippoHsu 3 года назад

3:58 Fun fact you’d regret: the Chinese letters says “Never gonna give you up”

@iskrassupercoolchannel 2 года назад

Lmao

@MrHack4never 3 года назад

I love how eBay censors usernames except for first and last letter, so it just looks like a bunch of swearing

@NatetheNintendofan Год назад

Lol the funniest part is when somebody has a four-letter name and their first name starts with an f and then their last name starts with K then it looks like usernames the f word

@gremlinicous 3 года назад

This version of Office is a volume license. This also explains why the version is different (Professional Plus instead of Professional). Volume keys are used in large organizations which need to install Office on a large amount of computers, so the product key could be used multiple times. This key was probably stolen as are many on the internet. Hope this helps!

@kiyoshi_the_devil 3 года назад

The background music reminds me of some other channel... oh... i know... "I'm ARMING THE NUGGET!"

@rGunti 3 года назад

A man of culture I see. How many dollaridoos for this?

@qbeam 3 года назад

@@rGunti 1 Grit should do it!

@n.d1282 3 года назад

**bluechewch** mode

@fawkesrocks 3 года назад

It’s the freakish ears on a stand music

@kiyoshi_the_devil 3 года назад

@@n.d1282 A U X I L L A R Y M O D E

@cjhmc_9145 3 года назад

Michael is trying everything in his power to try and figure out a logical solution to all of the weirdness in this sofuare manual.

@SunIsLost 3 года назад

Yas! Tahdis prabably idy.

@colejohnson66 3 года назад

Sa ftware*

@Lim95 3 года назад

So nobody’s going to talk about how the “O” in “Office” is still lowercase?

@SunIsLost 3 года назад

lol

@trinity6880 3 года назад

loll

@cortexcortexified8623 3 года назад

Counterfeiting, without utilising braincells be like:

@stupidfuckingrat 3 года назад

michaelshaft binbows ton michealshaft oficce 2010

@californium-2526 3 года назад

@@stupidfuckingrat Oficce 2013 Ward, Eksel, Puwarpont, OutLoek, Pablišer

@thepoliticalstartrek 3 года назад

What you tend to see is VLKs(Volume) or MAKs that work for the first few years. Then MS finds out and disabled those. Could also be a OEM pulled off of a computer. I use to get bran new copies of older software via bankruptcy buy out from small businesses that in general do not have a Volume License. I do SAM audits so pretty much am versed on all the licensing rules. The disks may not be boot leg. The Disks may be legit, but the keys/packaging is boot leg.

@tristanraine 3 года назад

A microsoft office bootleg that actually activated? Thats interesting af, wonder if they used actual copies but didnt have the packaging so they had to recreate it themselves.

@DokuFREENET 3 года назад

Or they just got a legit key from another internet listing, bc people are stupid so many times and make a photo where the product key can be seen.

@markusTegelane 3 года назад

@@DokuFREENET totally possible

@BanterEdits 3 года назад

Office Pro Plus is a volume license thing. They bought 500 old Volume license keys for a few bucks and glued them to the box. This is not a retail version

@JeffreyPiatt 3 года назад

@@BanterEdits the problem is that Pro Plus requires a business/academic institution to be attached to activate basically like the office at home purchased copies of office once you leave the organization the office install deactivates. I wouldn't be shocked if there selling spare keys off a MSDN academic Alliance account from there college.

@realLuisGiordano 3 года назад

@@JeffreyPiatt that's for 2013 and up, which you can activate using an academic or business email on which your administrator associated the license to. ProPlus 2010 required a VLK to activate

@MrNside 3 года назад

I'm betting the original office manual was scanned and then reprinted using text recognition software from the original scan. My guess is that the scanner they used was junk (which would explain the low quality pics) and they realized it after trying to print the manual directly from the scan, but it was too blurry to even pass as legit at first glance. So they just ran text recognition software over the blurry scan (which also tries to guess the font, spacing, etc) and printed from that. That would explain a lot of the inconsistencies like with spacing, URLs, and the Trademark "TM".

@joedry1774 3 года назад

I think the reason it didn’t let you activate ‘over the internet’ was because the professional plus version was designed to be activated using a KMS server on a corporate network, obviously on the average home network one of these wouldn’t be running so it won’t let you activate.

@huntd004 3 года назад

Something like this happened to me back in January. I have an older eBay account with 100% feedback and someone hacked it and immediately they posted an add for copies of Windows 10. Luckily, I caught it and eBay removed the ad and didn't charge me any seller fees.

@TravisNewton1 3 года назад

That is the volume licensed version of Office 2010. You can tell by the EULA shown. The retail versions always have the full EULA.

@csx_defectdetector 2 года назад

MJD did a video on that very subject. He talked about using Ultimate PID Checker and found out that it was a VLK key. Somehow it was listed as Retail as well, though.

@lwvmobile 3 года назад

I didn't even know it was possible to get a seller rating that low. Seems like eBay will shut down a seller pretty fast for getting that many negative reviews, but I'm assuming it must have all hit all at once dragging it down that far.

@TubbyDreta 3 года назад

The Chinese at 4:00 says “Never gonna give you up”

@kernaltrap 3 года назад

I dident even know they put office on a DVD....

@HeenaPatel253 3 года назад

Now they don’t but before people didn’t use the internet as much people before used floppy disks and dvds for everything

@TheCandoRailfan 3 года назад

In the mid-2000's to early-2010's, everything came on a DVD (or CD if the software was small enough).

@drueckglueck9918 3 года назад

What is a dvd?

@linuxameteur 3 года назад

@@drueckglueck9918 a disc that you put ur files and shit on

@santelite5935 3 года назад

@@HeenaPatel253 Actually, theres still a versión of Office 2019 on disc that you can buy, albeit rarer to find.

@avagromus 3 года назад

"All your base are belong to us" pretty much describes that documentation

@LeoPlaysMCElevators 3 года назад

3:11 Microsoft sometimes sends out Office products in that cheap packaging but that rarely happens.

@csx_defectdetector 2 года назад

Interesting....

@Genio_soy 3 года назад

Michael: Im finally done making that bootleg windows video The sketchy company: "There is another one"

@lightsup55 3 года назад

Mikerowsoft Office Professional 2010 Yep, genuwin saftware indeed.

@cakedon 3 года назад

If the both companies teamed up, the first one making packaging, and the second one making software on the disc, it could be passed as a legit copy lol

@mr.e8566 3 года назад

these have been popping all over eBay from my recent experience

@KatieMya_ 3 года назад

I can confirm that you can still activate XP over the phone! About 2 months ago I had to do so with a new install of XP on a computer I helped build to play old games. It *would* have had a month grace period, but I updated the date and time without thinking.

@ZachToasted 3 года назад

did you even notice the briefcases have different shadows?

@MegaMJoker 3 года назад

3:58 Wait Michael, did you just rickrolled us with Chinese? (It's Never Gonna Give You Up translated into Chinese)

@alexga23113 3 года назад

Ah, another Bootleg Office Professional video. I love bootleg sa ftware videos.

@Subh8081 2 года назад

But they are genuine sofuare

@realcartoongirl 3 года назад

imagine coming back to ebay 20 years later and realise you are now selling bootleg microsoft office and have half negative reviews on your account which you did not do

@pumpkinnecromancer2490 3 года назад

When the copy of windows office you ordered to compare to a bootleg is ALSO a bootleg!

@l-l 3 года назад

It looks like older Ebay accounts are being cracked and then used to sell Microsoft Office scams. Looks like a pretty massive scheme too.

@kantraa 3 года назад

The account may be hacked or bought, hence the feedback change from 93 from 72.

@samuel-wankenobi 3 года назад

What they most likely have done was get a iso from the web and put it on a CD

@TechNetworkUK 3 года назад

Yay another bootleg Microsoft office video

@PlanetComputer 3 года назад

@ananttiwari1337 3 года назад

@@PlanetComputer No sir, I disagree with your statement.

@artificialbtr 3 года назад

@@PlanetComputer Thank you for this important information

@TechNetworkUK 3 года назад

@@PlanetComputer Very informative

@juangutierrez5400 3 года назад

@@PlanetComputer lol

@jungletreepolandballanimat3593 3 года назад

3:59 The box with the Chinese text is actually a rick roll. The text is a google translated version of "Never gonna give you up"

@tammysilverwolf1085 3 года назад

As for the age of the ebay accounts, you've basically got the right of it. :) It's actually pretty easy to buy stolen accounts on sites like Blackhatworld as 'aged accounts' which can get used for drop shipping or scams. It's trivial to get a proxy for these kinds of things to appear as if they're originating from the stolen account's area of origin and with so many credential dumps available out there, stealing accounts is very easy because the majority of people will use a tiny number of passwords for all their online accounts. If you do this, you need to change them and diversify! :) Great video as always, Michael. Thanks for educating people or giving them tools to explain these kinds of scams to non-tech savy folks. :)

@airfixer9461 3 года назад

Very interesting Michael, well done. I wasn't aware so much counterfeited software is being sold on eBay these days..it pays to be vigilant when looking for some new stuff...thx to your research we're better informed before we buy...Cheers :-)

@SwissArmyTin 3 года назад

14:25 I would like to mention, XP activation over the phone still works! About a week ago I set up a new XP VM after my old one shat the bed with an activation loop, and to my surprise the hotline still works perfectly. I'll try Office XP soon since it has a similar activation countdown despite my copy having a valid registration key...still don't understand why Microsoft did that...

@DokuFREENET 3 года назад

Office 2007 Also works fine, as of Xp , i just installed office 2007 on a 3rd pc in my house ( i actualy have a 3 pc license of office 2007) and xp aout a month ago.

@kaitlyn__L 3 года назад

Office 03 last good Office

@The-pf4zy 3 года назад

Great editing! Keep up the great work.

@MichaelMJD 3 года назад

Thank you!

@SquirreliciousMe 3 года назад

Yeah, so Professional Plus is a Volume License version, which was as you suggested, not available in a retail form. It won't require a key up-front, but the key will be legitimate. The key will either be a legitimate volume license customers key, or a volume license style key taken from an MSDN subscription or similar. Happens all the time, and Microsoft do not give a toss - I've had many conversations with them when customers have clearly bought a dodgy copy, and the answer from MS every time is "did it activate?" "Yes" "then it's legitimate and you're fine". That's how little they give a toss.

@gilly5809 3 года назад

I absolutely love the little Santa Claus pointer.

@BoomboxStudiosAndDexter 3 года назад

Always love When I get a notification for when you upload! Keep up the good work! Also I have made my own windows 98 PC with new old stock parts!

@MichaelMJD 3 года назад

That's awesome!

@BoomboxStudiosAndDexter 3 года назад

@@MichaelMJD Thanks! I never really expected you to resond! Haha! I love your channel. Don't tell Linus, but I watch you way more than him.

@BoomboxStudiosAndDexter 3 года назад

@@MichaelMJD Also With the Activation problem, I have activated offices all the way down to XP. I havent tried with 2000 or 98, but i bet it would work!

@Marenthyu 3 года назад

It took me way too long to realize i was watching MJD, not LGR.

@RonnyFebri 3 года назад

“Greetings”, (using LGR catchphrase)

@rogehmarbi 3 года назад

@@RonnyFebri "Hello everybody and welcome back..." (MJD catchprase intro)

@samspin 3 года назад

I reckon the provided keys that successfully validate are in fact Volume Licence keys that have been leaked or stolen. This could have consequences for businesses who originally bought the keys when they have their next Microsoft Audit when there is a mismatch between their reported installations and actual activations.

@kaitlyn__L 3 года назад

Other comments mention companies reselling unused volume keys after they upgrade to the next generation of software, eg they buy 1000 keys and use 800. Microsoft is probably not giving them a hard time when they show up to buy another 1000 keys in a few years.

@k4zyr 3 года назад

I love how the package is blatantly hinting this is pirated by saying genuine so much lol.

@ttkftykyfts 3 года назад

I love these videos so much. Gotta love the spelling mistakes, always makes me chuckle.

@n.d1282 3 года назад

Really. This is the best bootleg series ever! Please make more of these!

@blainepalmerza 3 года назад

Awesome video, Michael!

@Nabeelco 3 года назад

I think these *are* legit copies that didn't pass QC, or were "midnight runs" where extra legitimate copies were manufactured without Microsoft's knowledge or consent after the factory was supposed to stop production.

@rogehmarbi 3 года назад

"Midnight run", man haven't heard that phrase for a while, not since I dabbled in bootleg Adidas and Nike

@PCWindowstechguy 3 года назад

This video is awesome i also liked the original one because of all the spelling mistakes on the bootleg copy of Microsoft Office 2010. Keep the great work MJD.

@MichaelMJD 3 года назад

Thank you! I appreciate it!

@windowsxp3790 3 года назад

Great video Michael keep it up

@DJ_BL00DJEMZ 3 года назад

"help you a helping hand"

@Nimmbin 3 года назад

Sohappy you are able show this genuine MicRosaut Office Professional for viewing preasure us. Dammit I just can't do it. Great video MJD 😊 👍

@Random_person_07 3 года назад

Great video! keep up the great content!

@Random_person_07 3 года назад

made a spelling error

@kaitlyn__L 3 года назад

Really liked the flying calendars, lol Addendum: ok this is looking to be a theme today, excellent

@qlum 3 года назад

Could be that they had some old stock of just the cd's with key but without the box and basically repackaged it to sell as new / sealed copies. Simple sleeved copies that where mostly bundled do exist.

@nathandoucette4275 3 года назад

Great video mate

@LightsharkStuff 3 года назад

You should make this a whole series!

@Chickenbreadlp 3 года назад

The reason it's Office 2010 Professional *Plus* is probably because you were able to download it as an ISO file for free from Microsoft directly years back as a Trail version. If it actually is the Trial ISO file, just burned to a disc made out to be like a real copy, then that would explain why it didn't ask you for a Product Key, because it was expecting that you are just installing a trial of Office 2010. I think that's also the reason why these bootleg copies are always of Office Professional, as to the end user it might not seem too off if there's just a "Plus" in the installer's title bar behind "Professional". Then again, this doesn't explain why the first Bootleg copy had Office 2010 Standard edition on it... The key could've just as well been a scooped up as a volume license key from some company liquidation sale, or stolen in a Network breach of a still existing company. Most companies I've worked at as a software developer, I was able to just pull the volume license keys from a network share, accessible to all employees of the IT department. Not that I ever did, but I could certainly get ahold of them if I wanted to...

@soundspark 2 года назад

The "shutdown" of online activation is due to TLS upgrades in the servers. The error means the OS and/or the software could not validate the secure connection to the server due to the upgrades.

@josephfrye7342 3 года назад

um i have a question for you where did you find the banned as in illegal version bootleg of microsoft office? well the one it looks off well the one that has misspelled software which you got the picture.

@josephfrye7342 3 года назад

70% if it was dropped mmmh sound like somebody is not being really positively honest with you during shipping so that was a lie.

@windowsfan95 3 года назад

It’s interesting that you had to activate it over the phone. I freshly installed and activated office 2007 last year, even installing all the updates through Windows update.

@colejohnson66 3 года назад

Unsupported as of October 2020. So if you tried to activate prior to that, it would work

@nexxywastaken861 3 года назад

that phone number seems to be a united kingdom number, i'm in the uk and it seems like they used some online service as some US services have that wierd formatting.

@deathbringer2000 3 года назад

BRUH I DIDNT EVEN GET A NOTIFICATION THANK YOU RU-vid RECOMMENDED :D

@feni_1553 2 года назад

The one that is printed twice is an Office Standard DVD with the Office Professional label plastered over it.

@SECONDQUEST 3 года назад

12:20ish bro why do you hold the DVD like that. I understand cleaning is a thing but what do you gain form holding them that way?

@moelester7527 3 года назад

*12:18

@EliRickard 3 года назад

eBay from its beginning to 2011 didn’t have captcha during signup which is why the accounts are old because bots would creat them at mass and have since sold them to people who need to buy accounts in bulk

@garlandstrife 3 года назад

We need a part 3 with the genuine version! I'm loving this series!

@SpringApricot 3 года назад

That leaflet gave me strong Vincent Adultman vibes xDDD

@BlindMansRevenge2002 3 года назад

OK, I think I got it! The license key that was included in that box is a volume license. Office professional plus is the volume license version that is typically marketed to enterprise clients. I would not be surprised to learn if that same license key is in all of the boxes that that guy sent out. If you have a volume license you’d be able to install that version of Microsoft office professional +2010 on a countless number of computers.

@pianokeyjoe 3 года назад

I used to work in a Computer recycling center, and I can confirm that ALOT of the software on Ebay can be from those places and CAN be legit software and in many cases, NON USED older software from Companies and schools that donated or "recycled" old software and computers. The disc you just used was legit most likely, and the key may be legit but remember that each disc can get upto 3 activations, legit, activiations. Now as for the Saft ware? Yeah that is funny! But I used to sell unused legit OEM and sealed retail and enterprise software that came in big bins in the computer recycling center. Alot of it was from companies that never used all copies and licenses and upgraded before the life of the old software/computer hardware expired. Crazy stuff. But the CHINA thing sounds about right too. I had parts that were supposed to come from US location and took 3 weeks to arrive and turns out it came from China so yep, been there had that.

@Eyetrauma 3 года назад

It’s funny/sad to think there are people buying these with the thought “well I don’t wanna *pirate* software, I want something legit” and then spending $60/70 on something as illegitimate as whatever they would have torrented.

@fmefw9892 3 года назад

when you realize the background music is the same one Dankpods use to test headphones *mindblowing*

@brovid-19 3 года назад

Nowdays, a bootleg and legged boot are virtually indistinguishable. You're gated off from content that's usually free unless you pay and the only thing paying for it does is pay for a license that either makes you less stable or seats you below the cumulative update of Damocles while it plays piñata with your system. but at least you can change wall paper or some herpderp.

@owenbonneville5835 3 года назад

I love seeing the real world exposed, seeing how much you truly are going to get is amazing. Makes me think twice before making a purchase.

@TelAnnas_ 2 года назад

Love the freakish ear on a stand background music at the beginning

@123moe 3 года назад

I'm pretty sure the activation servers are still up, it's just that Windows XP doesn't support TLS 1.1 or above so it can't talk to them.

@colejohnson66 3 года назад

So... there’s XP activation servers that XP can’t use... Nice

@harleyspeedthrust4013 7 месяцев назад

at this point, you are no longer just michael. you are michaelsoft. michaelsoft binbows

@MikeStavola 3 года назад

My brother got a copy of office 2003 when he was in college. He got it from the school IT department. It was labeled student & teacher edition, the box looked legit, but the CD itself was burned. I figured, maybe it was a volume license of their student version, because it said "for [College name] internal use only!" So I pop it into my laptop. Turns out it was a cracked version of 2003 standard with instructions on how to apply the crack in the root directory. Oof.

@MikeStavola 3 года назад

Oh. The serial was also legit, and the sticker itself looked legit. I'm thinking someone swapped the disc.

@foxxbaker 3 года назад

Why do I love watching these so much

@drumboy02 3 года назад

great vid! The most puzzling thing to me about this is not the bootlegging or scamming but why are so many people buying a decade old piece of software from ebay? lol

@SuperLowkc 3 года назад

3:59 i cackled out loud because the chinese translates to "never gonna give you up"

@nticompass 3 года назад

I wonder if the product key was like those $10 Windows 10 keys you find. Like they were VLKs or from a different region or something like that. I'm not too surprised to see a "legit" key in a fake package.

@HeiDocnet 3 года назад

If you want to identify whether that's a bootleg DVD, try peeling off the hologram. Genuine holograms are integrated into the disc itself.

@jamesmarlowe4034 3 года назад

The old TechNet subscriptions would give you one key, usable for up to 5 or 10 activations. The TechNet DVDs were marked NOT FOR RESALE, but you could always download the .iso images from Microsoft’s subscription portal, and burn your own disc. Make some packaging, sell on eBay, collect cash. I’m not saying that’s what they did, but it would explain how they got legitimate keys with knock-off discs.

@gaming_pains 2 года назад

5:26 they have the same code also can you do one for 2016 and maybe 2019, 2021, and 2007?

@moki5796 3 года назад

In my experience the phone activation is very lenient with old products. I was able to activate various keys that I've found on the internet for XP, Office and Vista. I was even able to activate some beta versions of Windows, such as Longhorn and Windows 7 Beta without issues. What you got there is probably some volume license key that allows a large amount of activations which hasn't reached it's limit yet. Put the key into google and check if any results come up or if it's a key that is not known yet on the internet, I'd be curious if it's already public or not.

@microcloudhd9231 3 года назад

My theory is that the product key is valid, like the cheap keys you can buy on ebay for windows and office but for some reason this seller sells it with a bootleg disc and packaging.

@pr0ntab 3 года назад

It might be because you can't use eBay to sell digital goods so they have to mock up (or pay someone in China) to make the packaging and disc to go with it, give it a tracking number, etc. so eBay/the buyer can't complain they didn't receive anything.

@minecrafter9099 3 года назад

Yep, activating windows xp through the phone still works, at least on a portuguese number, it was a really boring and tedious process though

@anthonyluke4387 3 года назад

I just activated Xp on a US number last month

@ovalteen4404 3 года назад

The old bootleg DVDs had the hologram labels, but they were stuck on instead of integrated into the DVD, and therefore easy to peel off. Is that still the case?

@mickaelsantos4572 3 года назад

É como dizem: se uma mentira é repetida várias vezes, ela se torna uma verdade. Toda linha aparece o "genuine".

@plexus6419 Год назад

Bro using Christmas theme in March 💀

@weeblesdontwobble 3 года назад

Office pro plus is for corporate licensing and not to be resold to the general public. Obviously these sellers are making copies and selling them. Often the pro plus license can be activated thousands of times and hence why some people can get it activated