http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25478
Summary: MS Office Pro 2010 Trial: activation over the internet fails Product: Wine Version: 1.3.9 Platform: x86 OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: dimesio@earthlink.net Depends on: 25476
Created an attachment (id=32436) --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=32436) Office Pro 2010 Trial activation failure
To reproduce, download the Trial and install it without Outlook (to work around bug 25476), then start Excel. Excel will open, and a dialog saying Office needs to be activated will appear. Click "Next" and you are presented with three choices for activation: over the internet, by phone (though this one is grayed out), or convert to the full version. Select "over the internet" and click Next. Activation will start, but soon terminate with a popup message saying "An unspecified error has occurred. Your request cannot be processed at this time. Please try again later (0x8004FC13)."
The same thing happens with Word and Powerpoint, but both those apps need overrides to start up, whereas Excel doesn't.