Al,

This doesn't explain everything about the lack of anti-piracy measuers, but I'd like to point out that Office XP and Windows XP are both licensed on a per-PC basis, while developer tools are licensed on a per-developer basis.

In addition, Microsoft is aiming a lot of the piracy measures toward the "casual piracy" of home users buying one license to set up a machine for dad, one for mom, and one for each kid to use for homework. These folks don't usually come near developer tools. The corporate editions of Windows XP won't have the activation stuff.



>Unhappily, true. However, bear in mind that Office 2000 SP2 and Office XP were both released before VFP7, and both include reasonably effective antipiracy measures. Why doesn't VFP7?