Also keep in mind that the public betas of both Office and Vista were
released yesterday, so hundreds of thousands of people are hitting both the
download servers and the activation servers today. It'll probably be very
difficult to connect for the next several days. There's nothing you can do
about it except to retry it at random intervals.

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Graham Mayor wrote:
See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=822519


Chantelle wrote:
I have been trying to activate my word program, and it says if it
does not work after a mintue to check my internet connection. My
internection is fine, however it still keeps coming up with this
message every time I try. Would there be the possibility that my
internet connection is too slow, and if so how do I then activate it?