Parallels desktop 10: "You have reached the maximum number of activations available"

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George Fidias

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Hi,
I uninstalled Parallels 10 from my old macbook pro and after installing it on my new one, I got this message: "You have reached the maximum number of activations available for your activation key. Please purchase a new product license."
Of course I am not going to purchase it again.
What can be done?
Thanks!
 
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HenrikS1 said:
Hi Paul Chris,

A while ago I wrote a post @ https://forum.parallels.com/threads/non-developer-friendly-license.330005/, and how people working in a technical capacity may have issues with Parallels due to the archaic licensing model. Is this something that you have yet to discuss internally or can one expect a reasonably resolution any time soon?

As of now it is a major impediment in using your product and with such a huge limitation hidden in fine print you are only doing yourself a disservice.

Happy Friday!

Best,
Henrik
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Henrik, I couldn't have agreed more. I think Parallels mgmt need to understand software management of 2010's. If your business model is to come up with a newer version of a product every year, and you want to motive people to shell out money to upgrade every year, then license management needs to be easier. I think if they put parelles on App Store and allowed people to install on 5 machines per apple policy, a lot more people will adopt it and then eventually upgrade every year because it so much easier to click one button to buy/install/re-install.
 
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Agreed. I will not be continuing to support Parallels once my subscription is up. Not having a single user license is absolutely ridiculous. Like so many users I'm in a desktop+laptop scenario and only ever using one or the other. To have buy two separate RE-OCCURING licenses for just myself so I can use parallels whether I'm on my laptop or the desktop (only ever on one or the other) is asinine; the situation is driven by pure greed on Parallels part. I can already see how in 5 years from now I will be spending $5,000 a year just in software subscription costs. Beyond livid at Parallels at this point.
 
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Hello,

I am also having this problem. I migrated to a new system and am getting the same error message. I have signed out of parallels on my old system but am still not able to activate the new Mac. Please help reset my license.
 
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