Microsoft's validation for Windows and Office seems to be getting quite a bad press at the moment. I don't think this is going to help even though this isn't going to descend into a rant.

I've been writing a review of the Getting Started Tab for Word 2007. I needed to check the download details and that involved visiting the download page. It prompted me to validate, which I duly did and succeeded.

That's great, apart from the fact I don't have Office 2007 on my computer here, only 2003. It just seems odd that no one thought to check version numbers. I wonder what would have happened with a legit copy of 2003 but illegitimate copy of 2007...