Bootleg Microsoft Office 2010 Showcase

[@matthewscomputers]

Awesome video, thanks so much for the shoutout!

[@batorerdyniev9805]

Hu

[@hmmmm_yt]

Somehow I am very surprised that this comment only has 156 likezzz 😐

[@s7002]

E

[@ITAC85]

Sixth

[@alextheshining7771]

Wassup

[@wyattr7128]

The irony of the "Do not lend or make illegal copies" warning on the disc

[@Sabrintwitt3r]

You became the very thing you swore to destroy

[@wyattr7128]

@@Sabrintwitt3r huh

[@nukiradio]

@@fadate7292 vom

[@wadmodderschalton5763]

Imagine if that tagline had many misspellings, then people wouldn't recognize the difference. (14:05)

[@MondySpartan]

You know it’s a bootleg when Arial is used everywhere.

[@tylerbroad9457]

This is the last place I would expect to find you, but I'm glad you're watching this incredible man.

[@erikdavidson4914]

No comic sans

[@realshaanjohal]

@@erikdavidson4914 wow haha so funny

[@probanity]

Original: Segoe UI Bootleg: A R I A L

[@coffeemakerbottomcracked]

And Arial is a "copy" of Helvetica bruh

[@TheRailroad99]

These seems like OCR scanned, without the errors being corrected.

[@simonro9168]

But with “docs.love.vom” would OCR make the mistake where both characters are the keys on the keyboard right next to the correct ones?

[@thogameskanaal]

@@simonro9168 they had one job... Obviously, these scammers are always in such a hurry that they can't even make their packaging look legitimate. Though, for this one, I don't understand how they went through all the effort to make the box's shape and color scheme look authentic, but they couldn't correctly spell some text on the box and manual...

[@thebosss435]

I agree, like the windows word is never right I think they scanned the original box but directly printing the scan made the fonts low quality so the people must have OCR'ed all the texts

[@docpadds2]

Definitely bad OCR

[@pewnit]

I was literally just gonna comment this

[@MichaelMJD]

So that "genuine" copy of Office that I was waiting for finally showed up.... and it turned out to be another bootleg: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fIvMfpR7dr97gtE

[@yehiathekindmaster]

late asf but im suprised no one replied to dis comment also (other bootleg office saga parts references coming up) as the geniune office user i love using internet explorep 7.0 along with the best form of "saftware" with security stable reputation and *qualityservices* on "docs.love.vom" every time i open office 2010 "professional" on my pc.

[@ColdSphinX]

regarding the "love vom" ... "i" is next to "o" and "c" is next to "v" on many keyboard layouts including en_US.

[@geoffreyfriberg1838]

i was gonna say-

[@cashnelson2306]

yeah, kinda weird for someone this into tech to not be able to spot super-common obvious typos like those lol

[@nahrafe]

Lice cim?

[@stephenkamenar]

was using backspace banned? what's going on with the amount of typos

[@JohnDlugosz]

In my experience, the mistakes with spacing points to a Chinese (or possibly other Asian) creator. While a Westerner would think that the lack of spaces between words would be instantly noticeable, Chinese text doesn't use spaces. The big spaced out "\ \" is probably the "full width" ASCII from an Asian font. Back in the days of text mode, the Japanese character set used two cells to draw one character, which worked naturally with the double-byte encoding. So-called "full width" forms of the ASCII characters were provided as well, so they would line up with the Japanese characters when mixed in with them. Later, the same thing was kept with Chinese fonts. Mixing up when to use capital vs lower-case is reasonable for someone not used to the Latin character set, as well. The odd extra space after the (R) symbol points to something different. It was probably typed up on a simple word processor (maybe even the Bootleg Office Word?), not a full typesetting program like InDesign. Though that symbol should be present in the normal common fonts, so would not be spaced so wrong... maybe in order to type the symbol it was pasted in, came in a different font, and kept the wrong font. Choosing characters from symbol character sets will often cause the line spacing to be way too much for the line that contains that character, but I didn't notice that here.

[@liamkortekaas6328]

4:50 behold my fake PS3 controller. It actually took me a lot of effort to find out that it actually was fake. The packaging was spot on and the only thing of the controller itself I could tell were that the red player indicator lights on the back had a tiny bit more bleedout, the fake was (ever so slightly) lighter and the Mini-USB port had its seam on a different place. Really well done. No spelling mistakes, nothing.

[@yuriythebest]

it almost looks like they scanned the original and used an automated scanner program to convert the image to text.. and then print it? that would explain the weird errors.. but... why not just scan and print directly??

[@Zekapix]

My guess would be that their scan was too low quality to look real so this was their weird way of "upscaling" it

[@yakov5776]

OCR

[@youhackforme]

My guess is they can't read/understand english

[@diegotorres3416]

That is my guess too. I remember having issues with spaces after colons and the trademark symbol all the time whenever I used an OCR back in the day

[@kingpanguan]

if I saw this in a store I would tell them that it's fake but I'd buy it anyway

[@myslink]

14:40 The "dots" here should be CJK chars. Default XP setup does not come with such support, except CJK localized versions, so you'd need to add it in language and regional settings. From Vista onward, CJK fonts are included for easier distribution and intl support.

[@antniomanso]

this box is just like that hand drawn horse meme, it starts like a masterpiece and finishes drawn by a kid with a cheap pencil

Next video: This video was uploaded on Internet explorep

[@fullmetaljacket7]

17:00 you can use a program called "Microsoft Windows ISO download tool" or "windows iso downloader" to download the isos straight from ms servers. It works for ms office too.

[@cjhmc_9145]

Internet Explorep, the greatest browser for Windows 12!

[@u0aol1]

Cardboard is easily damaged where as the plastic cases are not, leftover plastic cases sold in a bulk order under the table sounds like a good explanation as to how they got an official plastic case And yes, the box and disc have different part numbers on the original, I just checked my copy.

[@marcberm]

There are some subtle differences in the "clover leaf" Office logo in the top left of the package too. The fake is much more squared off on all of the petals compared to the real.

[@Tamay.]

2:28 they also wrote wlth ("with" with an L) and WindOWŚ

[@phroggu]

And windows as WfndOWS

[@mstech-gamingandmore1827]

WfndOWS Server requIres

[@Tamay.]

@@phroggu It kinda looked like WindOWŚ

[@maximcoppieters]

Confirms that it was probably OCRed

[@mstech-gamingandmore1827]

@@maximcoppieters I... Actually never thought of that!

[@RobertMungo]

Seems interesting that, according to the top seal, this is both the International edition and for distribution in the US only.

[@sstygiann]

always excited to see an mjd upload especially when i can view it on internet explorep

[@alumlovescake]

I mean Internet Explorep plays flash games at 240fps and has real time video fps increase and resolution

[@scrappBird]

Ah yes, "Internet Explorep".

[@bitterlemonboy]

Always pirate software online, don't "buy" pirated software.

[@FlyboyHelosim]

Exactly, kind of defeats the point. Also it's often easier just to get a copy of the real thing and crack that.

[@arnox4554]

@@FlyboyHelosim A genuine copy of Office 2010 will run you about $100. Not super expensive, but they sure ain't giving them away either.

[@FlyboyHelosim]

@@arnox4554 Or just download it for free...

[@arnox4554]

@@FlyboyHelosim Assuming you get the high seas version, there's always a chance that it could contain malware. Very unlikely if you know what you're doing, but all the same, a retail copy will obviously ensure that the install is clean.

[@FlyboyHelosim]

@@arnox4554 What the hell is the 'high seas' version? I've never downloaded any disc image that contained malware. Besides, all of this stuff can be downloaded directly from Microsoft.

[@stonent]

The directory naming format is similar to when I had digital downloads of Office through my college. They were an encrypted link that used a special tool to download them. It generated a folder with the contents in that style in your downloads folder. So they may have tried to use files they obtained from a student version.

[@_..---]

They should have used the spell check feature in their bootleg product.

[@TechNetworkUK]

That Internet explorer spelling mistake was just incredible XD

[@probanity]

ecks dee

[@mattelder1971]

I is next to O on the keyboard and C is next to V. That can easily explain the typos in the URL, especially when the whole thing was probably done by someone with zero knowledge of English.

[@TechHowden]

It is amazing that they were able to make that disc look so good

[@MechaDragonX]

9:57 That looks like the full-width slash that is used for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. It could be an indication that the bootleg is from China, lol.

[@moelester7527]

Obviously.

[@doorssecondchannel-ndRepon]

2:28 WfndOWS

[@vendybirdsvadl7472]

Someone had stroke when writing that

[@idkgames860]

Lmao

[@barowt]

A relative used to sell burned copies with printed labels of The Neverhood every year around Christmas.. Though it is a super fun game and I'm sure the people enjoyed playing it.. also, my relative was smart enough to make the EXE file on the root directory of the discs, and not in a folder...

[@johnlockman9090]

Looks like someone did a shitty OCR of the whole box and just shipped the output with no corrections.

[@Killertamagotchi]

If the hologram is a sticker, it is a bootleg. In the case of original Microsoft discs, the hologram is part of the reflective layer of the disc that is incorporated into the disc

[@Amaqse]

yeah because u could just download the installer from literally anywhere else to test the key, even from torrent. Distributing the installer is legal, as long as it doesnt contain hacked license

[@craftersmine]

Great video) Also that looks to me as a scanned image and then they ran it through text recognition tool and didn't even bothered to check it. It is like trying to use Google Translate with camera tool and it gets words wrong

[@mike406]

15:30 it does, but the auto run has to be at the root, and since in this case it isn’t that’s why it didn’t prompt you anything automatically.

[@minater247]

I recently found this channel and I'm so glad I did, your content is fun and entertaining to watch! Thank you for all your awesome work :D

[@MichaelMJD]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching the videos!

[@Alex-1286-m6k]

@@MichaelMJD hey

[@Alex-1286-m6k]

@@MichaelMJD I’m a big fan

[@duckrinium]

Found fake excel site with just "excel" as domain typed in my language. It's hilarious to see it's even having copyright and saying it's official. yea yea...

[@Exolyne-]

can you give me a link to it? im just curious what it looks like

[@duckrinium]

@@Exolyne- Please make sure to do not download anything from it without taking precautions, I don't know what it has as downloadable files. it's "эксель" and have top level domain as com

[@ZUB3RBR]

@@duckrinium I didn't know that there were domains with non-english alphabet :O I wonder why accents aren't allowed. It would be way better if I could type "ç", "á", "ã", etc...

[@Exolyne-]

@@duckrinium так ты русский?

[@pixelcat_yt]

@@ZUB3RBR There are actually top level domains with non-English characters as well

[@SlyHikari03]

OCR: Check Arial: Check We have a winner ladies and gentlemen

[@spongerobert]

You can get a Microsoft cd key checker app that'll tell you everything you need to know about that key. We use it all the time to check whether or not customer have a retail version of office installed or the classic "volume license"/KMS version. It can also tell you if it's an OEM key or a store bought retail key. I can't remember where I downloaded the utility but it works a treat and they're usually compatible with 2010 all the way to 2019 as well as windows 7 and up keys

[@dponzi56]

I bought MS Office 2010 from my job. They used to have the deal with Microsoft to get software cheap. I bought 2007, then 2010 for $10.00 each. Shortly after they ended the program, and I couldn't get stuff cheap anymore. I'm still using it though. I've installed it on like 5 computers now. It still works just fine.

[@GregInHouston2]

Thanks for this; I never would have spotted the tell tales. My experience is when I got burned with counterfeit codes. I'm a bit upset with Microsoft on that one because they authenticated it. I didn't find out until a couple of years later when I had to reinstall. Way too late to dispute the charge with the credit card company.

[@winksplorer]

my browser crashed right when this uploaded

[@phroggu]

That's cos you weren't using Internet Explorep 7®

[@winksplorer]

@@phroggu oh i forgot, i was using netscape navigator, i forgot internet explorer existed

[@absolutewisp]

@@winksplorer Explorep*

[@winksplorer]

@@absolutewisp what's the difference anyway

[@Joe_Spier]

@@winksplorer bootleg and official

[@greenerell484]

11:47 the c and the v are next to each other on the keyboard as is i and o

[@billhgong]

A PID checker app can be used to detect if the key is real (in format) and whether its a genuine key (i.e. its license type). However to verify if the key still works, you'll need to activate through Microsoft.

[@adamekp]

An example I frequently use is The Ultimate PID Checker. Although I assume that development has been stopped a while ago, it can use pkeyconfig.xrm-ms files from Windows 10 or other products not listed in the checker tool itself.

[@zenithseeker7]

Maybe someone bought it without the box and tried to make a fake box to resell to collectors ? The spelling mistakes and formatting errors could be due to using OCR to speed up the copy process maybe

[@BootlegFromThe]

Joey Perloni: *"PIRACY IS NO PARTY"*

[@yogibear2k220]

I know this is an older video, but I really do wish you had archived this! It look amazing!

[@emilyofjane]

This bootleg would win a Microsoft Look-Alike contest

[@lucsirotouka]

It would be interesting if there is a way to get the volume label of the disc. It says 口口口口 on MJD's computer and I assume it's because of system text encoding settings. Wondering if it's in Chinese.

[@redmanaaron97]

I still have my original bootleg Office 2010 Professional (Plus) that I bought and used unwittingly for a long time until Microsoft disabled it. I should have known the price was too good to be true, especially when it actually installed Professional Plus (which was only available with volume licensing), but I ran it until the end because MS disabled my Office 2010 beta like 6 months after RTM. I didn't think they had done that before, but somehow I had a feeling it was coming. Ahh, simpler times when I still had legitimate reasons to use Windows aside from certain games and Solid Edge

[@RampantLeaf]

If .vom TLDs ever start being sold, I'll be the first in line.

[@claracrazy]

just buy it... every company buys its own tlds... its not even that expensive, even I have my own

[@keganotoole6805]

@@TheStarscouts google was able to obtain a custom brand TLD from ICANN. IIRC to register a custom TLD it’s around 200k

[@keganotoole6805]

@@claracrazy IIRC custom TLDs are not cheap they are very expensive. Around 200k I believe.

[@pitaya4151]

@@claracrazy and what's ur tld

[@Sabrintwitt3r]

@@keganotoole6805 small price to pay for this meme

[@Riddim_glitch]

I would just like to point out that the domain mentioned at 11:50 is still up to this day, however, the actual is just a landing page for a website that doesnt yet exist. Something about trains and a trainstation. I dunno what thats abnout, but its really interesting.

[@Felecc]

11:39 when you type too fast and missclick "o" instead of "i" and "v" instead of "c"

[@Kitsudote]

I also think that the inner packing is legit, because it's hard to believe that they would create such a genuine looking packing but screw up so much with the easiest part, the text.

[@johnperalta9415]

I have a bootleg 2016.. It doesn't come with a box, it came in a plastic sleeve with a printout of what the box look like

[@suki679]

"Well yes, I use Internet Explorep 7. How could you tell?"

[@markusTegelane]

11:35 my theory is that it's an inside joke and they accidentally printed that on the final copy (easy mistake to make, since they probably don't have any quality control) Edit: somebody else pointed out that the mistakes are due to OCR without corrections

[@AnthonyMartinez6567]

Another awesome video!! Thanks brother

[@itwednesdaymydudes8492]

I like the new intro of "coming up" keep it up!!

[@alextirrellRI]

I was going to say it looked like the factory that made them just packaged up their rejects in a slightly altered box but the copied folder on the disc is too wacky for that.

[@Gabito04]

6:06 “Made in Puerto Rico” WHAT THE FU-

[@Gabito04]

@@mrdabup this is not what I meant

[@DavidWonn]

15:05 You can double click when the cursor changes to resize, and that will automatically expand the column so you can read the timestamp.

[@KIPPIE408]

At 2:11 there are more typos and spacing/capitalization errors than those stated at 2:23. - Send to OneNote® Print *Drive r* and *Inteq ration* with... - ... required to receive *b roadcast p resentation* _(maybe a period missing here)_ Internet functionality ... - Product functionality and *graPhics* may vary based on ...

[@iClone101]

If the other guy sends you a bootleg copy, you have to start a collection of bootleg MS Office 2010s

[@AxolotlAndy]

Macrohard Bimbows, Home Amateur 2010

[@probanity]

Internet Explorep included!

[@bitelaserkhalif]

For a bootleg, it has so much effort into it. In our country the bootleg pirate softwares just packed with small plastic bag (not even using case) and printed paper for displaying

[@moki5796]

Some hints: 1) The autorun on an Office 2010 DVD consists of setup launching, you can see in the autorun.ini which exact executable would be launched if it had been in the root path of the DVD. The DVD name might contain some Asian characters that your XP installation cannot display, but Windows 7 or newer plus some Google Translate should be able to tell you what it says. 2) You can find a copy of Office 2010 on the software section of archive.org or by just typing it in to the search at the top right hand corner. There are different types, yours would probably be Retail. 3) You can verify the key by using a tool called "The Ultimate PID Checker". It can tell you what type of key it is (Retail, volume, etc.) and if it's considered a valid key. 4) Furthermore if you succeed to install Office 2010 with the key but fail at the activation process, try the automated phone activation. Most of the times it lets you activate old products just fine, even if the key has been used more than allowed or comes from a sketchy source. Good luck and keep up the good work.

[@DrewDoesThings]

2:35 - Very clean motion-tracking!

[@SimonHollingshead]

10:32 - Experience is misspelled as experince.

[@TheRealPentiumMMX]

I have a bootleg copy of Windows NT 4.0. The box looks fine up front, but shows minor telltale signs on the back, and especially on the inside; the disc sleeve feels very thin and cheap compared to most Microsoft products of the era, and the fonts used on the disc label look off.

[@RomaniaOverpowered]

I should definitely send you some prime examples of bootleg software from my country, makes this office pack look legit!

[@diabomb]

My guess for the spelling is that they probably used some kind of character recognition and "forgot" to check it.

[@varsityathlete9927]

one thing you didn't do, that I recommend is turning the dvd over, and looking at the inner ring area (mould). Look for IFPI codes. This dvd, and others by MS are interesting they have holographs on the mould area too (inner ring, back of disc). Only discs I've seen use this tech on that side. IFPI codes were meant to stop privacy of cds, 1995 and after, its a dead give away for pirates.

[@simpleinverso8628]

I feel like the bootleg is actually some kind of art project: recreate the box but with blatant spelling mistakes, get an original disc and send it to a youtuber

[@FlyboyHelosim]

Probably the best thing to come out of me doing a course on Microsoft Office was the tutor giving me an unlimited site license product key for MS Office Professional Plus 2010. I don't need to pirate it when I can just download a genuine copy and activate it with an official code.

[@binhdantat5560]

whoa bootleg versions

[@macinman]

I've thought about buying a newer copy of office, I have an old copy of word 98 for the Mac, and office 4 for windows 3.1. (I think office 4.2) I actually like the LibreOffice project as an alternative. I don't think I'll do anything that will require having a real copy of office from Microsoft. Always love your videos.

[@2GlitchinAwesome]

Scariest thing is if they didn't have the spelling mistakes, he would have thought this is real. All they had to do was double check the spelling

[@TheSleepyCraftsman]

In step B at 9:20, there is a 0 instead of O in 0ffice. Honestly, some of the mistakes seem like poor OCR.

[@Sabrintwitt3r]

O and 0 are kinda close in a qwerty keyboard

[@RisingRevengeance]

Very odd how much work went into it. I'd expect to see a simple paper sleeve or something for a knockoff, this on the other hand takes time and a lot of money.

[@TheOriginalCollectorA1303]

I too enjoy using WindOWS with genuine certification!

[@stonent]

I immediately noticed the Office was not lined up correctly with Professional on the front.

[@timothy-wot]

I just realized that they probably used Office 2010 to make the bootleg copy.

[@JimmyHodge698]

the word "vom" wants me to "Comit" Get it

[@vincentjonesvr]

12:50 was actually correct, you read it incorrectly. I'd have added a comma for the second part, but it's also not incorrect to not include it.

[@supritchaudhary]

11:38 since the i and o keys and the c and v keys are right next to each other maybe the person who wrote this mistyped the keys and didn't notice

[@L0PREZ]

the pirate who made the knock off packaging is in tears right now just due to Michaels compliments on his plagiarism "Finally... Some recognition" -pirate.

[@eduardosanchezbarrios5810]

I never hear about Microsoft Office Bootlegs very funny cool video xD!

[@anthonyiatropoulos]

Great video, more bootlegs would be great. It's always funny looking at the misspelled packaging 😂

[@IPriinzPiiI]

Regarding 11:30 . Well, O is right next to I on the keyboard and same goes for V and C. Alteast on QWERTZ-keyboards.

[@hammondOT]

It's so weird, they got the difficult anti-counterfeit stuff like holograms to look legit, but messed up the super easy stuff like double printing artifacts and grammar errors lol.

[@SeraphicEuphoriaOfficial]

14:24 14:37 When a DVD downgrades itself to a CD

[@brody3166]

"How do you change live, to love, and com, to vom?" me: looks at keyboard and sees o next to i and v next to c I think they were just in a hurry to make bootleg windows

[@PinkAgaricus]

Also, in relation to love[dot]vom, the letter I is next to O and the letter C is next to V. I guess this is one of the first signs to spot before the disc itself that tells you it's a bootleg, they don't take the effort to fix those typos and leave them in for every copy (since it's just copy and paste to all the sleeves and quick start guide sheets). This particular saga is still funny even 2 years later. All these uncorrected typos in these parts of the bootleg have staying power.

[@wadmodderschalton5763]

Imagine there was a horror movie that combines the horrors of Anti-Piracy PSAs but with elements out of a John Carpenter movie, mostly The Thing & They Live.

[@VandelayIndustries1982]

the quick start guide also contained "experince" instead of experience 10:30

[@NigelMontezuma]

Can't wait to get my hands on this genuine authority saftware and sofuare

[@samuelese22]

Listening to your voice uncovering weird bootlegs, scams and ripoffs is my kink 😂

[@imjustsomeguy]

I still have Office 2007 I bought from Fry's (RIP Fry's). The case was really cool. It pops out instead of opening like a book

[@NielsonLucas]

My dad still has a genuine copy of Office Home & Student 2010 purchased in October 2010.

[@smugshrug]

Most likely made by people with access to the factories where the official packaging was made, which would make it easy for them to produce bootlegs, either via overstock or replication.

[@arnox4554]

No I don't think so. I have an actual copy of 2010 and there's SO MANY problems with this bootleg. I think we can rule out them having access to the old machines and/or components.