NIS 2010 loses all program functionality when subscription expires?

I had upgraded to NIS 2010 from 2009 and my subscription expired yesterday.  When I clicked the system tray icon to open the main program window, all it showed was a msg to renew the subscription.  There didn't appear to be any way to get out of it and back to the program. 

 

I had already purchased a new copy of NIS 2010, so all I had to do was enter the new subscription key, but it disturbs me that the program loses all funtionality when the subscription expires if that is what happens.  It seems to me that it should keep working with the last definitions that were downloaded.

 

BGC

Message Edited by bgc99 on 12-10-2009 12:47 PM