Bought a new Mac, will my software's re-activate?

I bought a new Mac ... if I understand correctly, when I boot it for the first time, it will ask me if I am restoring a Time Machine copy .... I will select yes ... it should copy all my software, data, etc to the new computer ... my question is: I have purchased a fare amount of software, Office for Mac, QuickTime Pro, Flip4Mac Pro etc etc ... as all this software comes over, will it activate ok? And ... if it allows let's say two activations, what do I do in a couple of years when I upgrade again?
Thank you whoever can help me with this .... Mark

As no one really knows what software piracy measures third parties will institute in a couple years, the answer to your question would require speculation. Various software vendors make it as easy as simply restoring your preferences, which Time Machine will do if you use it to backup your entire hard drive. Others notice the time lapse, or hardware coded address of a machine's ethernet chip changes, and then require reactivation that way. Currently Apple's own operating system has no "activation" scheme, but it is limited in its license use, which you can read about on the operating system read me file found on its CD or DVD.
Your best bet is to make a clone of your software to one drive, and a Time Machine backup to another, and see whether an erase and restore causes any additional activation for what you use or not.
Never allow yourself to have less than two backups of your data at anytime, and always keep activation codes written down in case the backup only leaves behind a corrupt file of the activation preference.
To learn more about cloning see my FAQ*:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

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