Vista licence: punishment for frequent upgraders?

[Crispy Critter]

Wrong, as always.

OK, in your case you probably say my HDD got infected with a virus. There
are many BS reasons one can give but if you're smart you don't tell the
truth. I know of one other person besides the one I already mentioned who
was almost refused a reactivation for telling the truth. Retail Upgrade
version is the way to go you cheap bastages.

 

[Crispy Critter]

whats scarey is, I think you believe it........

If you believe that then perhaps I can interest you in some swampland I am
selling too?

 

[Dave]

I've seen one person post at HardOCP that they were refused activation of
OEM XP. He did get it activated by calling back and talking to someone
else
but with retail upgrade XP I don't have to be concernedd about that ever
happening. An extra twenty bucks is nothing to me.

Last I checked, OEM XP Pro SP2 was about 60 bucks less than Upgrade OEM XP
Pro SP2, at newegg prices. -Dave

 

[Dave]

They don't, people lie when they call to get OEM XP activated and just say
it is on the same PC.

Define "the same PC". According to Microsoft's definition, if your
mainboard changes brands, your mainboard changes chipsets, your CPU changes
brands (intel/amd or amd/intel), and your hard drive was replaced, it is
still the same PC. -Dave

 

[John Doe]

but with retail upgrade XP I don't have to be concernedd about

Last I checked, OEM XP Pro SP2 was about 60 bucks less than
Upgrade OEM XP Pro SP2, at newegg prices. -Dave

Nothing times three is still nothing.

/

 

[JAD]

Nothing times three is still nothing.

/

three times the air volume.......

 

[Rod Speed]

Rod Speed wrote

OK, in your case you probably say my HDD got infected with a virus.

Pathetic, really.

There are many BS reasons one can give
but if you're smart you don't tell the truth.

Wrong, as always.

I know of one other person besides the one I already mentioned
who was almost refused a reactivation for telling the truth.

The technical term for that is 'pathetically inadequate sample'

Retail Upgrade version is the way to go you cheap bastages.

Depends entirely on the price difference, cretin.

 

[J. Conners]

No one knows yet because it aint being shipped yet. So there can be no link.

As you like to say, "bare faced lie".

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2012348,00.asp

That was as of 5 Sept. 2006

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___________________________________________________
Jack Conners

Good judgement comes with experience.
Unfortunately a lot of that comes from bad judgement.

Xubuntu 6.10

 

[Rod Speed]

Rod Speed wrote

As you like to say, "bare faced lie".

We'll see...

And it aint a lie if its just wrong.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2012348,00.asp

Useless on that question of what it will cost
Dell or HP when they put it on a new system.

That was as of 5 Sept. 2006

Still useless on the price being discussed.

 

[Brian]

Cool. Details, please.

For what? AOE 2 or World of Warcraft?

Either one is somewhat easy.

There are very easy directions for WoW here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=2432975

I just followed them, word for word, and within a short time, I was
running wow.

And AOE 2 is also, somewhat simple. I was able to run the setup program in
wine, and it installed.

Then I used a no-cd crack, and overrided some dlls. The links, and
directions are here (http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=147).

~brian

 

[John Doe]

For what? AOE 2 or World of Warcraft?

Either one is somewhat easy.

That's called "mental gymnastics".

And AOE 2 is also, somewhat simple.

Relatively speaking.

I was able to run the setup program in wine, and it installed.

"One in a million chance of a lifetime... la la la"

Then I used a no-cd crack, and overrided some dlls. The links, and
directions are here
(http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=147).

Yes. I highly recommend taking a look at that page. That will give
the average user an idea of the hell he will go through to get an
ordinary Windows program to work in Linux, after he has learned the
weirdness of the Linux interface, file structure, and program
installation.

On that page, after getting a laugh out of reading about user
frustration with the complexities, be sure to expand the Linux
distributions chart to see how many the game totally failed on after
a major waste of time trying to get it to half-work.

As if there aren't already enough problems getting complex programs
to work properly on complex personal computer systems.

Good luck.

 

[Crispy Critter]

Define "the same PC". According to Microsoft's definition, if your
mainboard changes brands, your mainboard changes chipsets, your CPU changes
brands (intel/amd or amd/intel), and your hard drive was replaced, it is
still the same PC. -Dave

Show me that definition.