If you had to make a phone call, it didn't work. It only was vehicle for
instllation and you had to properly register it or it was a piracy issue.
If you opbtained the disks from Acer no phone call would have been
neccessary.
Since the computer is working and activated, I consider it did work.
It's cheaper and less time consuming to make a free phone call to MS than
having to deal with the Acer lousy support.
I wanted to install Vista Home Premium on a PC that originally came with
Vista Home Premium using the original COA key, I don't see piracy there.
The computer is now activated and ligit so I say the answer to my
original question is "Yes, but you might need to make a phone call".
If there was a piracy issue, they wouldn't activate it.
By the way I didn't "register" it, only activated.
