Re: XP Home Activation

From: Richard Urban (richardurbanREMOVETHIS_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/09/04 

Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 21:11:10 -0400

"Anyone else feel the same?"

NOT HERE! 

-- 
Regards:
Richard Urban
aka  Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
"D.R." <D.R. @ NZ> wrote in message 
news:IpN%c.336$JQ4.42344@news.xtra.co.nz...
> 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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