How does "activation" work?

Kahurangi wrote:

I now find that it throws me a message that it is has to be connected to the internet each time it starts in order to confirm activation! If it isn't then it just shuts down.

Surely Not? This means that I cannot use X1 without being connected -- and there are many times when I am not or choose not to be.

I do hope this is not the case. Who wants to have to keep a laptop permanently connected? What am I supposed to do if I am working on a train?

If so, this makes X1's new activation system even more egregious than Nuance's model of how not to do these things.

Have you fed in the activation details you received when you bought your copy? The answer is probably yes, because if not it might not even start.

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