Re: ok, let's clear this up MS - is Product Activation really restricted?

Leythos wrote:
> In article <#9B68phZFHA.1512@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> dontemailme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
>> A motherboard with a processor, an old ATI card or onboard chipset,
>> and a CDRW. LOL!
>
> Poor assumption, but that's your choice.

I notice you didn't tell us what kind of ATI video. Be a little more
specific, but it sure sounds like a barebones system to me.

>
>>>> Most average users can't even uninstall a program in Windows. I
>>>> know way too many people that start menu is larger than their
>>>> screens, all because they don't know how to manage their start
>>>> menu. Your fictitious son obviouly has more technical expertise
>>>> than that.
>>>
>>> And it would have worked as easily for those people you mention, it
>>> was so simple that anyone able to post in this group could do it.
>>
>> Really, was it set up to boot to CD by default, because if it wasn't
>> most people I know wouldn't know how to set up their computer to
>> boot to CD.
>
> Yes, it was setup, by default, to boot to CD. Every machine I've
> purchased in the last 3 years comes set to boot to CD if present.

And MOST of the people I know have computers AT least that old.

>
>> And most of the average users I know can't setup their email without
>> help, and wouldn't know how to access the USENET if their kids life
>> depended on it!
>
> He has the same information that any other internet user would have -
> email address, pop/smtp server names, password... fairly easy, even
> for people that don't know what pop means.


LOL! Your fictitious kid is much more knowledgable that the average
slubs I know.

>
>> And don't even try to lie that the CDO losers could do it!
>>
>>>
>>>>> While I agree that there are some things that still present a
>>>>> challenge for some small groups of users
>>>>
>>>> You are out of touch. Most of the users I know are challenged
>>>> using Windows. Linux would be like throwing them in a virtual
>>>> lions den.
>>>
>>> If you put two non-technical users, with no Windows/Linus experience
>>> in front of identical hardware systems, running each OS, they would
>>> not have any more problem with the Linux box than with the Windows
>>> box.
>>
>> Ah! You have to go to the third world to find people like that.
>> Most in the US that can afford a computer have had one for a few
>> years now, and expect to do thing the Windows way. You throw linux
>> at such a user, they wouldn't know how to navigate their harddrive
>> to find their files.
>
> Nopw, I know people that have had computers for more than 5 years that
> don't have a clue about using them - email, web, print from MS
> Works.... Many of them use Web based email since they don't know what
> Outlook Express is or how to set it up. Right here in the USA, tons
> of people like that.


"If you put two non-technical users, with no Windows/Linus experience" -
Douchethos

"Ah! You have to go to the third world to find people like that." -
kurttrail

"Nopw, I know people that have had computers for more than 5 years that
don't have a clue about using them" - Douchethos

If they have five years of experience on windows, then they aren't
"non-technical users, with no Windows/Linus experience"

>
>>>>> - multimedia is not as fully
>>>>> supported as it is under Windows, it's more than ready for the
>>>>> general public that buys computers from chain stores.
>>>>
>>>> LOL! That is like the first thing I tell people when they ask me
>>>> about buying computers is don't buy them from chain stores.
>>>
>>> Careful, if we agree on to many things (like the chain store item),
>>> people might get the idea that we're really room-mates :)
>>
>> I doubt it.
>
> Well, at least we agree that your machine is not typical of a home
> users machine.

I don't know how you got that from my reply.

But nearly everybody has an atypical machine. That is the biggest part
of the problem! The is no such thing as a typical machine!

And most people can't install any OS at all. And You want to start them
off by installing Linux! You are totally INSANE! Most people would be
lucky to start and complete a Windows Upgrade from within Windows! Most
could not do a Clean install of windows, and definitely not Linux!

Saying that the average user could do a clean install of ANY OS is just
showing how out of touch with reality you really are!

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