Microsoft Reader Website

[MSReaderGirl]

Dear Customers,

We are excited to announce that our new Microsoft Reader website will be
arriving shortly!

As we need to take down the old site in order to bring up the new one, you
may experience some site outages. During this time we want to ensure that
our customers are not blocked from their normal Reader site activities.
Here are some some links you may find helpful:

If you need to reactivate your Microsoft Reader please go here :
http://das.microsoft.com/activate/default.aspd

If you would like to find Microsoft Reader content please go here:
http://www.mslit.com

If you need to download Microsoft Reader for your PC please go here:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/0/9/d099ad62-41d1-4e92-9935-67955a437460/MSReaderSetupUSA.exe

If you need to download Microsoft Reader for your TabletPC please go here:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/c/e/3/ce31c5ef-f95c-4883-8598-ea48982c46d8/Readerv25setupUSA.exe

If you need to download Microsoft Reader for your UMPC/Origami device please
go here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2213D032-F1AF-4FE4-A1A0-B895A35F743B&displaylang=en

If you need to download Microsoft Reader for Pocket PC/Windows Mobile please
go here:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/0/9/20997F86-3376-49CC-BD94-6A0521220E9C/MSReaderPPCUSASetup.exe

If you have any additional questions please reply back and we will do our
best to assist you futher.

Sincerely,
The Microsoft Reader Team

[Melodye]

Please coordinate your information with Microsoft Product Support Services.
I contacted them a few days ago trying to find out what happend to the
Microsoft Reader Website. They wrote back to say that they got the same
response that I did (We are sorry, the page you requested cannot be found).
They suggested I wait 24 hours and try again. They had no idea why the site
was down. I stumbled across this discussion group today. I'm glad to
finally have an answer. I hope the new site is up soon.
Thanks

[the Chief@discussions.microsoft.com Jon the Chief]

[JoanR]

I tried the link in this note to reactivate my msoft reader and it was not
found. need help . Thanks.

[Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]]

To try and clarify from the scattered information contained in the op;

There is no specific "MsReader" site at the moment... since the original
MsReader site url was not posted, we will have to wait until the url is
posted by the reader team.

The activation site posted does not exist.

Most of the links that come up from a microsoft search for reader are
currently broken.

All of the url's posted in the op are either download or content sites.

>> ...arriving shortly! <<

Again a very relative statement... in MS speak, could well mean a decade
or so ;-)

MS (unfortunately) has the habit of simply "turning off" sites which
then generate "generic" error messages which can be very misleading...
such as "try again later" something that may well happen if the site
does not like the browser you are using... a formula guaranteed to
generate much frustration.

Beverly Howard [Microsoft MVP-Mobile Devices]

[wjtingle]

Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev] wrote:
> MS (unfortunately) has the habit of simply "turning off" sites which
> then generate "generic" error messages which can be very misleading...
> such as "try again later" something that may well happen if the site
> does not like the browser you are using... a formula guaranteed to
> generate much frustration.

That, combined with their general lackadaisical attitude about making
Reader more broadly and generally useful, has led to me no longer using
it, even though, in some ways, it's still a superior book reader. If
they were smart, the Sony Reader, the Kindle, and a bunch of other
devices would support MS Reader. I still use it on my PDA for legacy
stuff, but I don't acquire any new content. Sad.

Regards,
Jack Tingle

[Tricky Frenchman]

Try this for activation:

http://das.microsoft.com/activate/default.asp

Though I can state from experience, the site loads but you still can't
activate. Something about the servers are down for repair/upgrades.

[Daniel Crichton]

MSReaderGirl wrote on Sat, 6 Dec 2008 08:14:50 -0800:

> Dear Customers,

> We are excited to announce that our new Microsoft Reader website will
> be arriving shortly!

> As we need to take down the old site in order to bring up the new one,
> you may experience some site outages. During this time we want to
> ensure that our customers are not blocked from their normal Reader
> site activities. Here are some some links you may find helpful:

> If you need to reactivate your Microsoft Reader please go here :
> http://das.microsoft.com/activate/default.aspd

That should be

http://das.microsoft.com/activate/default.asp

--
Dan
http://www.ereadable.com

[Erik Sojka (MVP)]

The site(s) seem to be back up, but activation is still wierd. When I try
to activate, I get IE asking to run several ActiveX programs, which is
normal. What is not normal is that they seem to be unsigned or are left
over from some test systems.

From the IE popup:
Name: Microsoft Reader Activation Client Component
Publisher: Test Company (unverified publisher)

I can get a screenshot to any 'softies if someone wants to send me an email
or contact via MVP channels.

"Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]" <BevNoSpamBevHoward.com> wrote in
news:uo7i1dJW...@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl:

[Daniel Crichton]

Erik wrote on Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:41:19 -0800:

> The site(s) seem to be back up, but activation is still wierd. When I
> try to activate, I get IE asking to run several ActiveX programs,
> which is normal. What is not normal is that they seem to be unsigned
> or are left over from some test systems.

> From the IE popup:
> Name: Microsoft Reader Activation Client Component
> Publisher: Test Company (unverified publisher)

> I can get a screenshot to any 'softies if someone wants to send me an
> email or contact via MVP channels.

From what I remember the MS Reader ActiveX components have always been like
this.

Dan

[smcrjc]

How asinine. Over a month later, and the links in this post still don't
work? What are you people playing at? And when are you going to fix your
activation servers?

[Michael]

I'm asking this because of all the issues, and the fact that Word 2007 no
longer supports the Reader Add-in. I've asked this before and recveived no
response. Would very much appreciate a response.