Office 365 Activation Problem (0x80070005)

Anonymous
2013-05-03T13:11:47+00:00

I just purchased a one month subscription for Office 365 Home Premium for 5 PCs and installed on my PC (Alienware M17XR4 Windows 7). Now whenever I try to activate my Office it fails and the error shown is - "We're sorry, something went wrong and we can't do this for you right now. Please try again later. ( 0x80070005 )".

I still have about 25 days' subscription left.

Please tell how I can activate this.

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Anonymous
2013-08-12T23:39:57+00:00

right click> run as admin and activate

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-03-02T17:03:10+00:00

    Right click on any Office program and select "Run as Administrator".  As soon as I did that the activation successfully was completed (which had previoulsy been completed several weeeks prior).  Wasted 2 days on this problem.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-03-01T19:26:46+00:00

    It's called apathy.  Microsoft couldn't care less.  Software developers have one thing in mind - separating you from your money by pushing buggy, poorly conceived code and then leaving the bug fixing up to their unfortunate users.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-03-01T08:52:44+00:00

    Thank you

    Does anyone know why they insist this is run as administrator.  I have just wasted half a day uninstalling and reinstalling.

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