Point of Activation?

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Kerry said:
We've gone over this before ad nauseum. I have quoted extensive
statistics from my own sales from two retail outlets over the last 10
years. I don't have access to Microsoft's internal statistics. In a
nutshell I never used to sell OEM Office and around 20% of PC sales
the customer said they already had a copy of Windows and to not
install an OS. Now I sell Office with around 50% of the systems and
almost no systems without Windows. I don't want to argue the ethics
of activations. I'm just commenting on what I have experienced.
Talking to other small OEMs their experience is very similar. All the
statistics I have seen on piracy are not about casual copying between
friends or family.
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Ancedotal evidence at best. The software industries own stats don't
back that up.

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William said:
One can only wonder why it took you three hours for what other have
accomplished in less than three minutes.
When my PC crashed several times and I had to call because I exceeded
the activation times, I was given a new code as soon as I explained
the need: crashed PC, reinstalled Windows. I didn't have to explain
how I caused the PC to crash, what steps I used to troubleshoot it,
what I had done before/after, etc.
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If you're applying a "It didn't happen to me, so how come it happened to
you" filter, keep in mind that can go the other way too. My experiences are
more in line with yours, but there have been enough reports of things going
down just as the OP reported here that I can believe them quite easily.

Enough people have reported those kind of problems to make it clear that
either:

* your phone experience is dependant on who you get,

* or that there is a script that says to give people a hard time if they
mention certain "red button" issues,

* or that there is a world wide conspiracy of total strangers to collude in
making microsoft's activation scheme look bad, as if it can't do that by
itself or something.

I'm listing the alternatives there in what I suspect is order of likelyhood,
btw.

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checked (event viewer / syslog)".
 
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