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Author Topic: Have MC12 (or 13) Trial Period Start When First Run?  (Read 1295 times)

glynor

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Have MC12 (or 13) Trial Period Start When First Run?
« on: October 24, 2006, 12:48:18 am »

I'd like to be able to give MC some free advertising!

I do a bit of tech support for people in my local area.  I'd guess that's probably true of at least a fair number of us here (if nothing else but for our families).

I find I do a fair number of nuke-n-paves (wipe and re-start from scratch).  I always like to make sure to install some of my favorite, non-evil applications for the people I'm helping out, including media players, web browsers, and whatnot.

I usually hook people up with CCCP and Media Player Classic, Firefox with Adblock Plus and Filterset.G updaters enabled, TightVNC for easy remote tech support, ZipGenius, and a few other utilities that I use regularly.

Unfortunately, as much as I'd like to, I can't pre-install MC for them (at least I don't think I can) because as soon as I install it, their 30 days would start ticking.  (Am I wrong on this?)  It might not be a terrible idea to have MC switch to start the counter when it is first launched!  That way I (and probably others here too) could give it cred where cred is due.  I honestly think some of my clients would end up hooked if they took the 30 days.  It might take them a while to check it out though, and if they find they only have 3 days left it'll probably leave a bad taste.

Certainly wouldn't be a terrible idea for marketing MC as a "free trial" product anyway!
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Re: Have MC12 (or 13) Trial Period Start When First Run?
« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2006, 09:28:20 am »

That's an awesome idea.
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Re: Have MC12 (or 13) Trial Period Start When First Run?
« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2006, 09:41:07 am »

I'm sorry, but licensing can't be changed at this time.  Thanks for sharing MC.
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Re: Have MC12 (or 13) Trial Period Start When First Run?
« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2006, 12:20:40 pm »

In regards to topic, "Have MC12 (or 13) Trial Period Start When First Run?" Glynor, when I was building lots of systems as a moonlighting business, I included a shortcut on the desktop "Try Media Jukebox!" that linked to the download for Media Jukebox, with a popup description stating some of it's best features and to give it a try once they get their music files loaded on their computer. This way they always got the most recent version too. I think about 7-15 or so ended up purchased at least a single copy, and I know 4-5 that still are using Media Center 10 or 11. Several ended up going WMP as it evolved, as they didn't need the higher end that Media Center now provides. FWIW.


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