Re: XP Home Activation

From: kurttrail (dontemailme_at_anywhereintheknownuniverse.org)
Date: 09/09/04 

Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 00:02:52 -0400

Don Burnette wrote:

> D.R. wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Not really. I have had XP installed since Dec of 01, first Home, then
> Pro. I have upgraded motherboards, processors, video cards, sound
> cars, ram a few times. Acitvation was painless via the internet - one
> time, I had to phone in for activation, took maybe 5 minutes, and was
> not a hassle at all.

It is a hassle when it doesn't work right. 

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