Re: XP Home Activation

From: Tan. (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/09/04 

Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 23:07:06 -0700

"What right have they got to dictate whether or not we can
upgrade
part on our own machines?"

This is how. You do remember clicking on "I accept" right?

Section 1 of EULA states
"* Mandatory Activation. The license rights granted under
this
      EULA are limited to the first thirty (30) days after
      you first install the Product unless you supply
      information required to activate your licensed copy
in
      the manner described during the setup sequence of the
      Product. You can activate the Product through the
use
      of the Internet or telephone; toll charges may
apply.
      You may also need to reactivate the Product if you
modify
      your computer hardware or alter the Product. There
are
      technological measures in this Product that are
designed
      to prevent unlicensed or illegal use of the
Product.
      You agree that we may use those measures."

Also all hardware changes do not have to be made at the
same time, If you change ram and cpu today he could have
changed say a video card 1 year ago and will "usually"
prompt for activation after 3 changes.

Tan.
>-----Original Message-----
>"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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