The Microsoft Saftware Genuine Authority has given you the gift of high-performance and secure.

@rogehmarbi

3 жыл бұрын

Very Cringe If you'd remove the period at the end you'd keep me hanging

@elweewutroone

3 жыл бұрын

Microsoft®️ sa ftware *Genuine* authority Security Stable Reputation

@trinity6880

3 жыл бұрын

lmao

@kaitlyn__L

3 жыл бұрын

@@instinctivelycorner ＳＡＦＴＷＡＲＥ (ｓａｆｔｗａｒｅ）

@kaitlyn__L

3 жыл бұрын

@@instinctivelycorner ツッ

Petition to name Bootleg Software as "Saftware"!

@SECONDQUEST

3 жыл бұрын

Lemme just boot up "Winders", it's my favorite Saftware.

@bubgamingandvlogs3870

3 жыл бұрын

Im signing up

@moelester7527

3 жыл бұрын

@@SECONDQUEST isn't that an oparating sistam?

@ukraineballaviation1483

3 жыл бұрын

It's like Engrish and English

@adzimrosly6905

3 жыл бұрын

also, don't forget, *sofuare* as well!

Here's my theory: They're taking all the Windows and Office OEM bundle license stickers stuck on those ewaste PCs that we sent to China. They record the serial numbers, then resell them bundled with a bootleg copy of Office or Windows. They're valid serials, but you always have to call-in to activate them. The next step is to use Magic Jelly Bean and extract the generated valid serial number so you don't have to call-in to activate it again. Copy that serial number down, and you now have a working copy of Office or Windows.

@MatthewCobalt

3 жыл бұрын

That has tobe the reason, as the keys on the box themselves are no longer even applicable anymore.

@espertalhao041

3 жыл бұрын

Another option is someone that just generated a key with a keygen.

@DarkGreenMagician

3 жыл бұрын

@@espertalhao041 Keygens can’t be activated over the phone...

@wadmodderschalton5763

2 жыл бұрын

In other words: Defund Chinese bootleggers. (19:27)

@elbiggus

2 жыл бұрын

Back in the day the company I was working for replaced a bunch of random Win95 machines with a fleet of standardised Comaq Deskpros running XP, but before deployment they all got re-imaged and activated with a volume license key. All the original XP product keys were therefore going "spare" so I had a text file with hundreds of the things; they came in pretty handy over the years!

Michael before opening the box: "I do believe this could be legitimate, but I'm not sure." Michael after opening the box: "Nope nope nope this is a bootleg."

@jaylenfan

3 жыл бұрын

GoAnimate

@Linus7671DX

3 жыл бұрын

TBONE? YOU WATCH MICHAEL MJD TOO?

@tboneanimatetwoaccount2094

3 жыл бұрын

@@Linus7671DX Yes I do. I'm a big fan of computers and operating systems. It's what I want to do going further in life.

@Linus7671DX

3 жыл бұрын

@@tboneanimatetwoaccount2094 OMG me too. I love computers and operating systems. I even use VirtualBox to emulate Linux distros.

Could be a hacked or bought eBay account, hence the change in feedback. You sometimes see scam mails looking to buy eBay accounts with good feedback

@simonro9168

3 жыл бұрын

Either that, or a seller who bought the Office discs wholesale, unaware that it was a bootleg. That wouldn't explain the long shipping though, so your theory is more likely. Edit: nvm hadn't finished the video yet, seems a lot less likely with that many lmao.

@MichaelMJD

3 жыл бұрын

This is discussed near the end of the video!

@David-fm6go

3 жыл бұрын

@@MichaelMJD I ran into this with video cards. You find old accounts, great feedback etc selling dozens of 1080 tis for dirt cheap prices. Then the listing and sometimes the account will be removed by ebay and the item is never shipped. I think ebay has been substantially compromised by scammers in this fashion the last few months.

@wadmodderschalton5763

3 жыл бұрын

eBay should crack down on these bootleg copies of Microsoft Windows & Microsoft Office by banning these accounts based on negative reviews from customers who bought these bootlegs. 17:30

@dkashvideos

3 жыл бұрын

@@wadmodderschalton5763 problem is if these are hacked accounts then the people who originally had the account would not have an account anymore

If they were smart bootleggers, they could have replaced the support phone numbers with their own in an attempt to do some phishing. Makes even more sense if they purposefully put a disk that won't install. They could add an official looking statement saying to "Don't return if you have issues. Please call support first!".

@Yellowpick10

3 жыл бұрын

They might take it down, though. Ebay or Amazon might get a complaint about it, and they would investigate.

@xelop5648

2 жыл бұрын

Don't give them ideas

@nikkiofthevalley

Жыл бұрын

@@Yellowpick10 They'd just make a new account. It is much easier than it should be to avoid takedowns from Ebay and Amazon.

Fun fact: that “security stable reputation” wording was actually used by Microsoft on packages targeted at China market at this time period. I’ve never seen these words on packages for other markets though. I guess whoever made this bootleg copy just did an OCR and then fed the Chinese results into an online translator. Also, that is a volume licensing edition of Office, which is a popular target of piracy because its activation scheme is more easily bypassed than the retail editions.

@hammondOT

8 ай бұрын

You don't have to say "Fun fact". We aren't on reddit.

@Minix_07

7 ай бұрын

​@@hammondOTreddit didn't invent fun facts 💀💀💀

@Win98Beta.

6 ай бұрын

​​​@@hammondOTbuddy, reddit did not invent fun facts. 💀💀💀

@hammondOT

6 ай бұрын

@@Win98Beta. Redditors love adding "fun fact" to their posts.

I love this bootleg copy series! I would love to see more of this :)

@doramilitiakatiemelody1875

3 жыл бұрын

Same!

@PlanetComputer

3 жыл бұрын

,

@laurendoe168

3 жыл бұрын

Not me - when you've seen one.... you've basically seen them all. These have so many red flags it gets boring as they get listed.

@kev1354

3 жыл бұрын

@justaPERSON me three

@thishandlesucks-webcookie

3 жыл бұрын

S O F U A R E Sa ftware *LOL*

At least you got a Physical CD and a Box, Microsoft doesn´t even include that anymore.

@wadmodderschalton5763

2 жыл бұрын

Microsoft needs to take these unofficial box art rips some legal action. (1:06)

@silverballstudios3578

2 жыл бұрын

They use USBs

the fact that the DVD looks genuine makes me think it just is. they are probably mispressings or second grade that got sorted out, and some guy just fished them out of the bin before they could get destroyed and eventually they ended up in some counterfeit operation.

I love how eBay censors usernames except for first and last letter, so it just looks like a bunch of swearing

@NatetheNintendofan

Жыл бұрын

Lol the funniest part is when somebody has a four-letter name and their first name starts with an f and then their last name starts with K then it looks like usernames the f word

3:58 Fun fact you’d regret: the Chinese letters says “Never gonna give you up”

@iskrassupercoolchannel

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao

This version of Office is a volume license. This also explains why the version is different (Professional Plus instead of Professional). Volume keys are used in large organizations which need to install Office on a large amount of computers, so the product key could be used multiple times. This key was probably stolen as are many on the internet. Hope this helps!

The background music reminds me of some other channel... oh... i know... "I'm ARMING THE NUGGET!"

@rGunti

3 жыл бұрын

A man of culture I see. How many dollaridoos for this?

@qbeam

3 жыл бұрын

@@rGunti 1 Grit should do it!

@n.d1282

3 жыл бұрын

**bluechewch** mode

@fawkesrocks

3 жыл бұрын

It’s the freakish ears on a stand music

@kiyoshi_the_devil

3 жыл бұрын

@@n.d1282 A U X I L L A R Y M O D E

A microsoft office bootleg that actually activated? Thats interesting af, wonder if they used actual copies but didnt have the packaging so they had to recreate it themselves.

@DokuFREENET

3 жыл бұрын

Or they just got a legit key from another internet listing, bc people are stupid so many times and make a photo where the product key can be seen.

@markusTegelane

3 жыл бұрын

@@DokuFREENET totally possible

@BanterEdits

3 жыл бұрын

Office Pro Plus is a volume license thing. They bought 500 old Volume license keys for a few bucks and glued them to the box. This is not a retail version

@JeffreyPiatt

3 жыл бұрын

@@BanterEdits the problem is that Pro Plus requires a business/academic institution to be attached to activate basically like the office at home purchased copies of office once you leave the organization the office install deactivates. I wouldn't be shocked if there selling spare keys off a MSDN academic Alliance account from there college.

@realLuisGiordano

3 жыл бұрын

@@JeffreyPiatt that's for 2013 and up, which you can activate using an academic or business email on which your administrator associated the license to. ProPlus 2010 required a VLK to activate

So nobody’s going to talk about how the “O” in “Office” is still lowercase?

@SunIsLost

3 жыл бұрын

lol

@trinity6880

3 жыл бұрын

loll

@cortexcortexified8623

3 жыл бұрын

Counterfeiting, without utilising braincells be like:

@weegeenumberone2

3 жыл бұрын

michaelshaft binbows ton michealshaft oficce 2010

@californium-2526

3 жыл бұрын

@@weegeenumberone2 Oficce 2013 Ward, Eksel, Puwarpont, OutLoek, Pablišer

Michael is trying everything in his power to try and figure out a logical solution to all of the weirdness in this sofuare manual.

@SunIsLost

3 жыл бұрын

Yas! Tahdis prabably idy.

@colejohnson66

3 жыл бұрын

Sa ftware*

I think the reason it didn’t let you activate ‘over the internet’ was because the professional plus version was designed to be activated using a KMS server on a corporate network, obviously on the average home network one of these wouldn’t be running so it won’t let you activate.

I'm betting the original office manual was scanned and then reprinted using text recognition software from the original scan. My guess is that the scanner they used was junk (which would explain the low quality pics) and they realized it after trying to print the manual directly from the scan, but it was too blurry to even pass as legit at first glance. So they just ran text recognition software over the blurry scan (which also tries to guess the font, spacing, etc) and printed from that. That would explain a lot of the inconsistencies like with spacing, URLs, and the Trademark "TM".

The Chinese at 4:00 says “Never gonna give you up”

What you tend to see is VLKs(Volume) or MAKs that work for the first few years. Then MS finds out and disabled those. Could also be a OEM pulled off of a computer. I use to get bran new copies of older software via bankruptcy buy out from small businesses that in general do not have a Volume License. I do SAM audits so pretty much am versed on all the licensing rules. The disks may not be boot leg. The Disks may be legit, but the keys/packaging is boot leg.

Something like this happened to me back in January. I have an older eBay account with 100% feedback and someone hacked it and immediately they posted an add for copies of Windows 10. Luckily, I caught it and eBay removed the ad and didn't charge me any seller fees.

That is the volume licensed version of Office 2010. You can tell by the EULA shown. The retail versions always have the full EULA.

@csx_defectdetector

2 жыл бұрын

MJD did a video on that very subject. He talked about using Ultimate PID Checker and found out that it was a VLK key. Somehow it was listed as Retail as well, though.

I dident even know they put office on a DVD....

@HeenaPatel253

3 жыл бұрын

Now they don’t but before people didn’t use the internet as much people before used floppy disks and dvds for everything

@TheCandoRailfan

3 жыл бұрын

In the mid-2000's to early-2010's, everything came on a DVD (or CD if the software was small enough).

@drueckglueck9918

3 жыл бұрын

What is a dvd?

@linuxameteur

3 жыл бұрын

@@drueckglueck9918 a disc that you put ur files and shit on

@santelite5935

3 жыл бұрын

@@HeenaPatel253 Actually, theres still a versión of Office 2019 on disc that you can buy, albeit rarer to find.

I didn't even know it was possible to get a seller rating that low. Seems like eBay will shut down a seller pretty fast for getting that many negative reviews, but I'm assuming it must have all hit all at once dragging it down that far.

Michael: Im finally done making that bootleg windows video The sketchy company: "There is another one"

"All your base are belong to us" pretty much describes that documentation

3:11 Microsoft sometimes sends out Office products in that cheap packaging but that rarely happens.

@csx_defectdetector

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting....

these have been popping all over eBay from my recent experience

I can confirm that you can still activate XP over the phone! About 2 months ago I had to do so with a new install of XP on a computer I helped build to play old games. It *would* have had a month grace period, but I updated the date and time without thinking.

If the both companies teamed up, the first one making packaging, and the second one making software on the disc, it could be passed as a legit copy lol

did you even notice the briefcases have different shadows?

Mikerowsoft Office Professional 2010 Yep, genuwin saftware indeed.

Great editing! Keep up the great work.

@MichaelMJD

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Ah, another Bootleg Office Professional video. I love bootleg sa ftware videos.

@Subh8081

2 жыл бұрын

But they are genuine sofuare

Very interesting Michael, well done. I wasn't aware so much counterfeited software is being sold on eBay these days..it pays to be vigilant when looking for some new stuff...thx to your research we're better informed before we buy...Cheers :-)

It took me way too long to realize i was watching MJD, not LGR.

@RonnyFebri

3 жыл бұрын

“Greetings”, (using LGR catchphrase)

@rogehmarbi

3 жыл бұрын

@@RonnyFebri "Hello everybody and welcome back..." (MJD catchprase intro)

Really. This is the best bootleg series ever! Please make more of these!

When the copy of windows office you ordered to compare to a bootleg is ALSO a bootleg!

The account may be hacked or bought, hence the feedback change from 93 from 72.

As for the age of the ebay accounts, you've basically got the right of it. :) It's actually pretty easy to buy stolen accounts on sites like Blackhatworld as 'aged accounts' which can get used for drop shipping or scams. It's trivial to get a proxy for these kinds of things to appear as if they're originating from the stolen account's area of origin and with so many credential dumps available out there, stealing accounts is very easy because the majority of people will use a tiny number of passwords for all their online accounts. If you do this, you need to change them and diversify! :) Great video as always, Michael. Thanks for educating people or giving them tools to explain these kinds of scams to non-tech savy folks. :)

3:58 Wait Michael, did you just rickrolled us with Chinese? (It's Never Gonna Give You Up translated into Chinese)

Always love When I get a notification for when you upload! Keep up the good work! Also I have made my own windows 98 PC with new old stock parts!

@MichaelMJD

3 жыл бұрын

That's awesome!

@BoomboxStudiosAndDexter

3 жыл бұрын

@@MichaelMJD Thanks! I never really expected you to resond! Haha! I love your channel. Don't tell Linus, but I watch you way more than him.

@BoomboxStudiosAndDexter

3 жыл бұрын

@@MichaelMJD Also With the Activation problem, I have activated offices all the way down to XP. I havent tried with 2000 or 98, but i bet it would work!

imagine coming back to ebay 20 years later and realise you are now selling bootleg microsoft office and have half negative reviews on your account which you did not do

I love these videos so much. Gotta love the spelling mistakes, always makes me chuckle.

It looks like older Ebay accounts are being cracked and then used to sell Microsoft Office scams. Looks like a pretty massive scheme too.

I absolutely love the little Santa Claus pointer.

3:59 The box with the Chinese text is actually a rick roll. The text is a google translated version of "Never gonna give you up"

Yay another bootleg Microsoft office video

@PlanetComputer

3 жыл бұрын

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@ananttiwari1337

3 жыл бұрын

@@PlanetComputer No sir, I disagree with your statement.

@artificialbtr

3 жыл бұрын

@@PlanetComputer Thank you for this important information

@TechNetworkUK

3 жыл бұрын

@@PlanetComputer Very informative

@juangutierrez5400

3 жыл бұрын

@@PlanetComputer lol

Awesome video, Michael!

This video is awesome i also liked the original one because of all the spelling mistakes on the bootleg copy of Microsoft Office 2010. Keep the great work MJD.

@MichaelMJD

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I appreciate it!

I love how the package is blatantly hinting this is pirated by saying genuine so much lol.

Sohappy you are able show this genuine MicRosaut Office Professional for viewing preasure us. Dammit I just can't do it. Great video MJD 😊 👍

What they most likely have done was get a iso from the web and put it on a CD

Great video Michael keep it up

You should make this a whole series!

"help you a helping hand"

We need a part 3 with the genuine version! I'm loving this series!

Great video! keep up the great content!

@Random_person_07

3 жыл бұрын

made a spelling error

Great video mate

Really liked the flying calendars, lol Addendum: ok this is looking to be a theme today, excellent

Yeah, so Professional Plus is a Volume License version, which was as you suggested, not available in a retail form. It won't require a key up-front, but the key will be legitimate. The key will either be a legitimate volume license customers key, or a volume license style key taken from an MSDN subscription or similar. Happens all the time, and Microsoft do not give a toss - I've had many conversations with them when customers have clearly bought a dodgy copy, and the answer from MS every time is "did it activate?" "Yes" "then it's legitimate and you're fine". That's how little they give a toss.

Digital Signature means nothing if you won't verify it (you can do it by clicking details)

I reckon the provided keys that successfully validate are in fact Volume Licence keys that have been leaked or stolen. This could have consequences for businesses who originally bought the keys when they have their next Microsoft Audit when there is a mismatch between their reported installations and actual activations.

@kaitlyn__L

3 жыл бұрын

Other comments mention companies reselling unused volume keys after they upgrade to the next generation of software, eg they buy 1000 keys and use 800. Microsoft is probably not giving them a hard time when they show up to buy another 1000 keys in a few years.

The "shutdown" of online activation is due to TLS upgrades in the servers. The error means the OS and/or the software could not validate the secure connection to the server due to the upgrades.

BRUH I DIDNT EVEN GET A NOTIFICATION THANK YOU KZread RECOMMENDED :D

um i have a question for you where did you find the banned as in illegal version bootleg of microsoft office? well the one it looks off well the one that has misspelled software which you got the picture.

@josephfrye7342

3 жыл бұрын

70% if it was dropped mmmh sound like somebody is not being really positively honest with you during shipping so that was a lie.

i don’t know how i found this channel, but i’m glad i ended up here

Ok let me explain a lot here for noobs. Microsoft office 2010 is region locked keys what this means is that if the key is from the uk or Japan or China the software won’t product activate in any other region like the u.s and Canada now I would like you to call in the product activation as well because older Microsoft products now no longer online activate you have to manually call them in like for products such as. Windows xp Office xp Windows vista Windows 8 Microsoft office 2008 through 2013 All have to be manually called in to the product activation center 1800 number.

14:25 I would like to mention, XP activation over the phone still works! About a week ago I set up a new XP VM after my old one shat the bed with an activation loop, and to my surprise the hotline still works perfectly. I'll try Office XP soon since it has a similar activation countdown despite my copy having a valid registration key...still don't understand why Microsoft did that...

@DokuFREENET

3 жыл бұрын

Office 2007 Also works fine, as of Xp , i just installed office 2007 on a 3rd pc in my house ( i actualy have a 3 pc license of office 2007) and xp aout a month ago.

@kaitlyn__L

3 жыл бұрын

Office 03 last good Office

at this point, you are no longer just michael. you are michaelsoft. michaelsoft binbows

The reason it's Office 2010 Professional *Plus* is probably because you were able to download it as an ISO file for free from Microsoft directly years back as a Trail version. If it actually is the Trial ISO file, just burned to a disc made out to be like a real copy, then that would explain why it didn't ask you for a Product Key, because it was expecting that you are just installing a trial of Office 2010. I think that's also the reason why these bootleg copies are always of Office Professional, as to the end user it might not seem too off if there's just a "Plus" in the installer's title bar behind "Professional". Then again, this doesn't explain why the first Bootleg copy had Office 2010 Standard edition on it... The key could've just as well been a scooped up as a volume license key from some company liquidation sale, or stolen in a Network breach of a still existing company. Most companies I've worked at as a software developer, I was able to just pull the volume license keys from a network share, accessible to all employees of the IT department. Not that I ever did, but I could certainly get ahold of them if I wanted to...

Why do I love watching these so much

OK, I think I got it! The license key that was included in that box is a volume license. Office professional plus is the volume license version that is typically marketed to enterprise clients. I would not be surprised to learn if that same license key is in all of the boxes that that guy sent out. If you have a volume license you’d be able to install that version of Microsoft office professional +2010 on a countless number of computers.

Is it possible it was a genuine disc put into a fake box to get extra money for it? Also ironically enough I did this process because I got an XP machine from my grandmother and installed Office 2003 on it

The old bootleg DVDs had the hologram labels, but they were stuck on instead of integrated into the DVD, and therefore easy to peel off. Is that still the case?

The ironic part is that they probably created the packaging using Microsoft Word 2010.

Bro using Christmas theme in March 💀

I love seeing the real world exposed, seeing how much you truly are going to get is amazing. Makes me think twice before making a purchase.

I used to work in a Computer recycling center, and I can confirm that ALOT of the software on Ebay can be from those places and CAN be legit software and in many cases, NON USED older software from Companies and schools that donated or "recycled" old software and computers. The disc you just used was legit most likely, and the key may be legit but remember that each disc can get upto 3 activations, legit, activiations. Now as for the Saft ware? Yeah that is funny! But I used to sell unused legit OEM and sealed retail and enterprise software that came in big bins in the computer recycling center. Alot of it was from companies that never used all copies and licenses and upgraded before the life of the old software/computer hardware expired. Crazy stuff. But the CHINA thing sounds about right too. I had parts that were supposed to come from US location and took 3 weeks to arrive and turns out it came from China so yep, been there had that.

How can’t you activate it I used the internet to activate Office 2007 a few days ago

Could be that they had some old stock of just the cd's with key but without the box and basically repackaged it to sell as new / sealed copies. Simple sleeved copies that where mostly bundled do exist.

great vid! The most puzzling thing to me about this is not the bootlegging or scamming but why are so many people buying a decade old piece of software from ebay? lol

If you want to identify whether that's a bootleg DVD, try peeling off the hologram. Genuine holograms are integrated into the disc itself.

It’s interesting that you had to activate it over the phone. I freshly installed and activated office 2007 last year, even installing all the updates through Windows update.

@colejohnson66

3 жыл бұрын

Unsupported as of October 2020. So if you tried to activate prior to that, it would work

The one that is printed twice is an Office Standard DVD with the Office Professional label plastered over it.

12:20ish bro why do you hold the DVD like that. I understand cleaning is a thing but what do you gain form holding them that way?

@moelester7527

3 жыл бұрын

*12:18

How much does it cost to activate over phone?

I'm pretty sure the activation servers are still up, it's just that Windows XP doesn't support TLS 1.1 or above so it can't talk to them.

@colejohnson66

3 жыл бұрын

So... there’s XP activation servers that XP can’t use... Nice

Love the freakish ear on a stand background music at the beginning

LOL What does Office have to do with security? That packaging is hilarious! XD

eBay from its beginning to 2011 didn’t have captcha during signup which is why the accounts are old because bots would creat them at mass and have since sold them to people who need to buy accounts in bulk

I wonder if this shows accounts that have either: 1) not been used in 5 years or more or 2) been compromised without the user getting wind of what happened and stopping the misuse should be purged and those users if they want to continue using the service, make a fresh account with a secure password. If it's the former + the latter the original user should just make a new one, especially if it's been affected by the latter issue for years. I see issues with an account that was created for good usage, but then either winds up being compromised via a data breach and/or unused for years. Even if the product activates flawlessly, those listings should be brought to the attention of eBay since it seems there's a flood of said listings.

I wonder if the product key was like those $10 Windows 10 keys you find. Like they were VLKs or from a different region or something like that. I'm not too surprised to see a "legit" key in a fake package.

when you realize the background music is the same one Dankpods use to test headphones *mindblowing*

Does it also come with keygen music?

@Michael MJD Quick note about your previous bootleg office 2010 video. I have a back up of the files that where available on the MS download website. Do you want them to test the key of your previous bootleg copy ? Have a nice day

In my experience the phone activation is very lenient with old products. I was able to activate various keys that I've found on the internet for XP, Office and Vista. I was even able to activate some beta versions of Windows, such as Longhorn and Windows 7 Beta without issues. What you got there is probably some volume license key that allows a large amount of activations which hasn't reached it's limit yet. Put the key into google and check if any results come up or if it's a key that is not known yet on the internet, I'd be curious if it's already public or not.

My guess is that is an OEM version or multi-seat version used by vendors for a pre-install build. The product key is either real, or the bootlegger has a key generator that passes muster of a checksum?

that phone number seems to be a united kingdom number, i'm in the uk and it seems like they used some online service as some US services have that wierd formatting.