Originally Posted by
Fareastdriver
I had a sudden thought! In the back of a cupboard was an old TwinHead laptop I had bought in Hong Kong in 1998. I last used it in 2005 but in the case was a pirated copy (HK) of Office 2003. I could not find the product code so I fired it up and when it was up and running again on W98 I tried to establish whether the product code was hidden in the Office software but with no success.
The presentation was totally different to W7 and 10 so I could not find out anything about it.
The last effort so I am going to have to buy it.
There used to be key scanning software out there that could easily find the product key for you. Although in the case of pirated (cracked) copies, these very often circumvented the Microsoft checks so the key it used could well be useless anyway.