I was just thinking the same thing...one user complaining on one of these threads said that their company had lost 10 licenses because of this de-activation mess...and another user cites a specific Microsoft Flash update that took place during the time frame of my problem. Folks who work for companies that have money to back them up need to take action. I made the mistake of leaving my workstation up while I was working on the shepherd project, because of the problem I had with the project before that, losing the data completely, so it was while I was resting that this particular update took out the ability for PP11 to do a successful dynamic sim, and not knowing exactly what happened, I assumed the fast fix would be restore to previous function on Monday of this week. So when I did that, supposedly it corrupted the PP11 activation. That's the long, involved story. It should not be this way. Software companies should know better than to depend that heavily on Windows stability. It has gotten so you have to keep at least minimal internet access for things to remain functional...now even with that minimal access, this type of thing happens. All this junk is paving the way toward software being online subscription based...so folks are suckered into a $10 dollar a month deal, paying $120 a year for software that they could have upgraded to for that price...duh...haha. In two years, one would be paying $240 to use the latest Poser, exceeding the upgrade price. That's if the monthly fee was just $10. Multiply that times all the companies that are trying to nudge people in that direction....it wouldn't take long for a heavy user to rack up over $100 a month in subscription and membership fees. Folks are just not bothering to do the math, or think about what they are being pulled into. And this is progress...haha.
I'm loading up Dusk, the Hivewire Horse, and Nataani in DS. I'm not sure I'll be able to render out anything tonight, but I'll at least have him ready to go tomorrow. I get up early tomorrow for errands.
