purplehaz said:
What hassle. I have never had an activation problem or hassle and I
have activated probably 50 or so machines.
Well, I have been hung up on just for asking to talk to a supervisor, when
activation Office XP. And you didn't think it was a hassle to type in 50
numbers on a telephone? Then if you sent on to the PA phone rep, you got to
go through telling them the whole friggin' number all over again. To me,
that is a hassle.
With proper computer maintenance, security, patches, updated xp
compatable drivers, good surfing habits, and knowledge of good and
bad programs this is not necessary.
I know that after rebuilding my system after a major hardware upgrade, it
sometimes takes me two are more installs until I'm happy with the results.
There are many reason to want to reinstall, and PA just makes it one step
harder to do things you want when you want to do them.
True, a repair install is not intended to get rid of any files. It
just fixes corrupted windows files. What's your point?
I see the point as being that a repair install isn't a cureall. And when XP
gets corrupted, the only recourse is to do a clean install, and got through
MS's PA dance all over again.
It is unlimited and if you have to call it is automated or if you
have to talk to a person it a painless two minute call. The only time
you will have to call is if you change significant hardware or its
been less than 120 days since your last activation. If your changing
hardware and/or activating in less than 120 days frequently you may
want to look into a volume license of xp that has no activation or
become an oem. A normal user does not have the need to activate this
often.
A normal user doesn't even need to deal with PA, as most of them buy their
computer's from a Major OEM that uses BIOS-Locking. PA has always been
targeted towards those of us that aren't normal. Those that build their
own.
How are you sure? Have you heard it happen? I have never been
refused. The only time you could get refused is if you have an oem xp
version and you transfered it to another computer, which is not
allowed.
Again, I got hung up on, and even Mike Stevens told me that he was hung up
on once. Sure all I did was call back and got another rep, but I know all
the ins & outs of MS's PA policies, but most home system builders don't.
When support for xp is gone the activation requirement will be taken
out of xp with a patch via windows update.
Are you sure about that?
"Microsoft will also support the activation of Windows XP throughout its
life and *will* *likely* provide an update that turns activation off at the
end of the product's lifecycle so users would no longer be required to
activate the product."
Whenever MS says sh*t like "will likely," I tend to take it with a big grain
of salt, and wait to see.
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