Quote Originally Posted by alanstancliff View Post
I hope this doesn't sound ignorant. If I upgrade to Xara 11 (local installation), does it phone home when I start it? I don't like the idea of having to be connected to the internet to use software I purchase, and I don't like the idea of having my usage monitored.

I understand why it is necessary to phone home to use the on-line version, but I want to make sure that it doesn't phone home when it's installed on my hard drive and then I use it.
If your connected to the internet then it will check to see if it is still valid (incase you deactivate it through your account online), along with if there is any patches to the program or if the designs gallery has been updated etc.

If your offline though and it can't get through, it checks the local validation, so if you activated or had your validation checked less than 30 days ago then it's happy.

None of the activation checking is intrusive though, it all happens silently in the background.