If you guys are going to have activation/subscription type checking, could you please make it so we can manage license info online? I think I've screwed this up now, I routinely wiped and reformatted my HD during the Windows 8 beta, plus replaced my HD with an SSD. I actually need to replace my SSD with a bigger one, but I think everything is tied down to the hardware and now I'm afraid to do anything as simple as a reinstall. Can we manage the 'official' machine name that's licensed online, or how do you deactivate a copy? I've run into all kinds of things with this activation scheme for things as simple as patches and now I hate this new version.
It's only the dread of using Adobe Illustrator keeping me from that monthly creative suite--at least it looks like they've worked out how to do this membership thing.