Having installed and activated using a previous license serial number, I needed to now update my installation with a different license serial number. In this case, my problem was that I couldn’t provoke the damned thing to allow me to do it! Ironic, because normally complaints about registration and activation revolve around being forced to do it at all. This uncovered something of an ironic problem. Having installed and activated Delphi XE4 using the license available to me from my employer I decided that, despite the very nasty taste left in my mouth, I would pay the $49 required for the XE4 “hot-fix” release, albeit only in order to remain with the valid update window now imposed by Embarcadero, on the off-chance that one of the next two releases might actually be worthwhile.
