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    I live in Belgium and we are a country that speak 2 languages: Dutch and French. I always set the language of Internet Explorer to English (US) but apparently if you then try to buy OneCare Live online you can't. The webapplication detecs that I live outside the US but it fails to let me know. I had to figure this one out by myself so after setting the language of IE to Dutch (Belgium) I am able to buy a subscription online. This is ridiculous!

    Friday, January 18, 2008 9:23 PM

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    To activate in Belgium your IE language needs to be French or Dutch. It can then be changed back. It's a rather misguided effort to prevent purchase of OneCare in a country where it is not available. Your IP address is checked against your IE language. This check does not happen if you install to a 2nd and 3rd PC and activate with your same LiveID.

    See this post regarding Activation redirecting you to a page where you cannot activate, but are presented with a view of available Windows Live Products instead -

    http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsOneCare/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1202298&SiteID=2

     

    -steve

    Saturday, January 19, 2008 3:42 AM
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    To activate in Belgium your IE language needs to be French or Dutch. It can then be changed back. It's a rather misguided effort to prevent purchase of OneCare in a country where it is not available. Your IP address is checked against your IE language. This check does not happen if you install to a 2nd and 3rd PC and activate with your same LiveID.

    See this post regarding Activation redirecting you to a page where you cannot activate, but are presented with a view of available Windows Live Products instead -

    http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsOneCare/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1202298&SiteID=2

     

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    Saturday, January 19, 2008 3:42 AM
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    Hello Stephen thanks for your reply. I searched the forum but did not find the post you mentioned. IMHO Microsoft should redesign the way it works now because they take a false assumption that everybody will set the language of Internet Explorer to the language of their country so I hope that someone from Microsoft is reading this.

     

    Saturday, January 19, 2008 8:02 AM