didn't seem to hurt profits much. >:-} current anti piracy can be a pain. There is something terribly wrong when one wants to change a hard drive or video card ( in Vista )( I had to reactivate Vista when I stretched a 200gb partition to 250.) and have to call mother to ask permission. Especially when MS issues SW to Dell and the like that does not. Just restored a Dell with RTM sw, what a pleasure to not input a key or need to activate. And it was a genuine install disk, not a restore disk because I streamed sp2 into it.
I have a customer box on the bench who I replaced a MB 2 weeks ago, activation was painless but as luck would have it suffered crib death and I have to replace it again and windows will not even let me log on without first activating which I haven't done yet but will require a phone call which can be painless or a pain. I have only had them refuse one on a machine because I did not replace the MB with a exact factory replacement. SUCKS. Last week the system was down and I spent hours on the phone getting a system activated. Most customers have no idea about all of this and I certainly can not charge shop rate while waiting. I say the 70's and 80's was good for business and current scheme is not. ( greed ) fp At 04:38 AM 3/30/2007, Hayes Elkins Poked the stick with: >>From: FORC5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Reply-To: The Hardware List <hardware@hardwaregroup.com> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], The Hardware List <hardware@hardwaregroup.com> >>Subject: Re: [H] Is There A Hardware Solution To The Problem Of Windows >>Piracy? >>Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:25:01 -0700 >> >>piracy is a farce create by BG who knows how to. >>Want to stop piracy, allow ppl to own what they buy and install it as many >>time as they want. problem over. :-! > >Last I checked this is how things were in the 70's and 80's. Not sure how well >that strategy faired against piracy.... > >_________________________________________________________________ >Watch free concerts with Pink, Rod Stewart, Oasis and more. Visit MSN Presents >today. >http://music.msn.com/presents?icid=ncmsnpresentstagline&ocid=T002MSN03A07001 > -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Money is a good aphrodisiac. Flowers work almost as well.
