Re: Install the Genuine Windows Validation Component


"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

>I have installed/reinstalled Windows XP on many computers.
> I have yet to run into a problem with Product Activation,
> via the internet or via telephone. Also, I have never had a
> problem with Windows Genuine Validation "messing up".
>
> Why do we have building inspectors? To verify compliance!

Not building anything. Just want to use what I legitimately paid for and see
no reason to have to prove it.

> Why do we have food inspectors? To verify compliance!

Not eating anything, nor do I server food to anyone.

> Why do we have Homeland Security personnel at airports?

I'm not flying anywhere, nor have I bout an airport.
>
> The list goes on and on.....

Yes, I am sure you've got some more lame analogies but so what?
>
> Roosevelt: "The only thing to fear is....fear itself!"

Irrevelant.
>
> Ronald Reagan: "Trust....but verify" = peace.

I am not a war with anyone or in danger of not having peace.
>
> "W": "Trust your instincts" = war, quagmire, lives, uncertainty.
>
> --
> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows XP - Shell/User
> Microsoft Newsgroups

Nonetheless, MS assumes you don't have legit software/licence or whatever
you want to call it and makes you prove it TWICE. The fact that you have had
no problems with the minuscule amount XPs you've worked with does not mean
that problems haven't happened or that the won't continue to happen. It's an
insult and doesn't stop piracy or "casual copying" one iota. ALL it does is
insult the paying customer and generate bad PR for MS. It may affect MS'
bottom line, though, because what would have been a paying customer may very
well go for a pirated copy just to avoid activation, validation and being
insulted by MS and people like YOU.

Alias
>
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>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> "Alias" wrote:
>
> | > Q: "MS assumes you are guilty of piracy unless you prove otherwise,
> | > something you don't care to address."
> | >
> | > A: False assumption.
> |
> | True assumption.
> |
> | > MSFT is only interested in making sure valid
> | > licensing is in effect on one's computer.
> |
> | Same thing.
> |
> | > Microsoft software is licensed
> | > to you, not sold.
> |
> | I paid money for it and got a receipt. I paid for something, didn't I?
> |
> | > Your right to use the license is spelled out in the EULA
> | > both in the Product and with future updates.
> |
> | "make sure licensing is in effect" is different from assuming piracy?
> Please
> | explain, I could use a good laugh.
> | >
> | > Q: "Are you really that logic impaired, Carey?"
> | >
> | > A: Yes, when it comes to irrational logic espoused by those who
> | > make-up silly statements!
> |
> | You're the one who doesn't understand logic. Maybe if I go slowly.
> |
> | I buy the software/licence, whatever you want to call it. First I have
> to
> | activate it to prove it is legit even though I just paid for it from a
> | reputable dealer and have a receipt. Then, if I want patches or
> downloads I
> | have to prove it is legit again. Get it yet? Pirates don't have to do
> any of
> | the above. Only customers who pay for the license/software or whatever
> you
> | want to call it have to jump through hoops to continue using the
> | license/software or whatever you want to call it. If the activation
> and/or
> | validation messes up, the paying customer has to jump through hoops to
> be
> | ABLE TO USE THE SOFTWARE/LICENSE HE OR SHE HAS PAID FOR and some idiot
> on
> | the phone may decide that he or she doesn't like me and not activate or
> | validate it.
> |
> | Ergo, to anyone that is not logic impaired like you, MS assumes you have
> not
> | got legit software/license or whatever you want to call it and insists
> that
> | the burden of proof is on the buyer.
> |
> | Why can't you understand this? How can you accept this MS policy as if
> it
> | were normal?
> |
> | Alias
>


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