It should be the receipt , the date you purchase it and not the activation date. Coz there will be bound to have hips of people activating the first time but they bought it a while ago. Then in such instant, how about those corp with no activation? How would you justify that? MS is not stupid to put it that way.=20 =20 Best and regards, Thomas Nathan Chan -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Darnell Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 11:00 AM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] With There Be a mso 2003 Free Upgrade Timeframe? And, if so, what will be the proof? In English, I have purchased MSO XP 2002 but not yet installed or activated it. In the past (unless I'm delusional), MS has counted backward from a relase date and said something like, "If you buy X now we'll let you upgrade to Y when it is released in three months!" I never took advantage of that deal before but now that I might, will MS want a receipt as proof? Or will the activation date be the key? If it is the latter then I'll wait to install and activate my copy of XP 2002. Ideas? Paul ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to=20 mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles ************************************************************* ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************