Why is MS trying to eff us over???

[groston]

I have a legitimate Office 2010 bundle which I have been using for years, and have no intention to update. However, a while ago, the window shown below would pop up when I ran an Office program.

I asked about this and was told:

• Goto C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\microsoft shared\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform
• Right click on: OSPPREARM.EXE and 'Run as Adminstrator'

and this resolved the issue (though I had to do this occasionally). However, the warning window showed up today (and zero changes have been made to this computer in months), so I did as shown above, but the warning still appeared. I rebooted my computer, tried again, and again the warning still appeared.



MS is clearly trying to eff us over since they will provide zero support to address this issue. Any suggestions as to what I can try to make this crap go away?