Re: XP Home Activation

From: Frank (bbunny_at_bqik.net)
Date: 09/09/04 

Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 04:50:41 -0400

Get real.....You are in over your head......Pointing fingers at
someone
or something else for ones own inadequacies does not solve
problems.....
http://www.compusa.com/sales/sale82904/ms_sp2.asp?pfp=fod#

"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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