I've thankfully only had to call the activation number once, and it
was a pain in the butt. The problem was ultimately resolved "no
questions asked" but it took forever to get to an operator. and my
usual trick of just repeating "operator" "operator" "operator" at the
voice prompts didn't seem to work :P
Scott
On Mar 30, 2007, at 12:22 PM, FORC5 wrote:
I guess bottom line it is their sandbox after all <:-|
I only get on this binge when I do updates on a legal machine and
it want to install WGA or I have to go thru what I am going thru
now with having to call. The time a couple of weeks ago when the
system was down I would call ( takes awhile to actually get to a
ppl ) and be told call back in 30 minutes, system is down and you
do this over and over and 3 hours later ya get the job done. Funny
thing about that, every call the PPL had a different accent.
And then restoring a Compaq or Dell and NOT having to play this
game. Why them, and not us.
don't even get me started on BG wanting a flood of illegal's, like
he cares about them. ( I guess he just wants a unlimited supply of
cheap engeneers )
fp
hohoho
At 08:48 AM 3/30/2007, Scott Sipe Poked the stick with:
I completely, 100% agree that things like activation are a complete
pain the butt... it's even worse with Quark software--even before
activation (early 90s), they made you type in at least 3 20 digit/
letter combos to use the software... annoying as heck.
But at the same time, you say the current scheme is not good for
business -- "greed." I don't really get that. If everyone bought all
the software they were supposed to, there wouldn't be any problems.
It's not like MS wants activation just to annoy people...whether it
is EFFECTIVE or not is an entirely different question. I don't really
see how it's "greed" that they want you people to actually have to
buy their software to use it. If software companies want to try to
enforce 1 sale = 1 usage, i think they're welcome to do it, but they
should realize too the cost to those of us who don't steal and
pirate. (maybe part of the reason I'm posting from a Mac! and why
about 1/2 the computers at work are still win2k)
Scott
On Mar 30, 2007, at 10:55 AM, FORC5 wrote:
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....
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