It kind of is. Expecting support for such old software is indeed unreasonable. But this is not asking for support, bug fixes, running on new platforms, or anyth

It kind of is. Expecting support for such old software is indeed unreasonable. But this is not asking for support, bug fixes, running on new platforms, or anything like that. It's people wanting to continue using the software they bought fair and square (rather than getting for free or subscribing to), and would still be able to run without this license check. How is that an unreasonable expectation? If MS doesn't want to keep the activation servers running, then they should release a patch that removes the license check. By coincidence, my dad was just telling me this week that he'd recently bought a shrink-wrap copy of Office 2010 or 2013, couldn't activate it automatically, and while MS phone support was reluctant to activate it they eventually found some kind of a workaround.