Solved Office 2010 reactivation required after Win 8 Upgrade

I did a Win 8 Upgrade over a Win 7, and chose the option to keep programs and data. I thought this would keep Office 2010 running without problems. But when starting Office 2010, a warning came that a system change had been detected and reactivation was required.
Luckily I could find the code but in my case, a message came that my Office 2010 had been activated too many times (I have 2 laptops and a PC and I also did some hardware changes on those).
Automatic phone activation also did not work, so I told a MS assistant that I upgraded to Win 8 and she gave me a code for activation.


So in the end no problems on my side. I just posted this so that others can use what happened in my case.

Hi there
Ms isn't the evil empire a lot of people says it is.
I've NEVER had any trouble when I've needed to activate by phone. If the automatic activation doesn't work BE 100% HONEST with the assistant and you'll always get activated unless you are trying something really stupid like moving an older W7 OEM Windows on to a new machine. Office 2010 won't give ANY problems.

Just BE HONEST -- they can usually tell if you are speaking a load of B/S.

I've never heard anyone being failed an activation code by phone if they are entitled to it.

(Note also a re-activation by phone re-sets the activation count again too).

Cheers
jimbo