XP Home Activation

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 09/09/04 

Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 17:52:49 -0700

No
>-----Original Message-----
>Man oh man. I just upgraded a friends pc. All I did was
stick a bigger CPU and a
>little more RAM. Upon boot it asks me to re-activate
online. What a steaming
>pile of XP this is. It wouldn't let me login to setup up
LAN or Modem, but just
>as well LAN set to DHCP. I connect to the internet by
plugging into my ADSL
>connection. MS server not available! So I let it dial up
a local number via the
>modem. Their modem answers ok, but the server still not
available. What a crock!
>So I have to phone an automated number, feed it a slew of
numbers, write down
>their numbers and enter by hand.
>
>All this takes valuable time.... and for what? Upgrade 2
parts and MS consider
>it a new pc? What right have they got to dictate whether
or not we can upgrade
>part on our own machines? I mean, you cannot activate
more than x times, right?
>
>I resent that Microsoft make us, the consumer, pay for
their own protection. I
>mean, it's the equivalent to some firm installing a
burglar alarm on their
>premises and making us, the consumer, pay for it.
>
>What makes it much worse is that MS use us, the consumer,
as guinea pigs to test
>their products. I mean, we buy their product, find it is
faulty, and then have
>to download a patch every so often to fix their mistakes.
When I installed 2003
>Server last year, I looked up the help files included on
the CD only to find
>that parts I needed info on had not been written yet even
though they appeared
>on the index/contents of the help. Many parts were
incomplete/to be continued.
>
>This seals it... I refuse to buy another MS product ever
again. While I install
>XP on peoples machines as part of my daily job, my home
pc will stay as a 98SE +
>Linux box until 98 doesn't suit me and then it'll be a
dedicated Linux box.
>
>Anyone else feel the same?
>
>D.R.
>
>
>.
>

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