Easy, if I walk into the office in the morning and find out that Vista
has gotten it's panties tied into a knot and the first thing I have to do
is call Microsoft and re-activate....then I have a problem. The problem
is not if activation is easy or difficult. I don't care if it's only a 10
second phone call. I care that I have to make one for a product I *paid
for*. It's a policy I don't agree with, hence it's a problem and one I
don't feel like dealing with.
When you paid for a license to use Vista on your computer, you paid
for exactly that: a LICENSE.
NOT "a disk containing a license"
NOT "the software contained on the disk"
NOT "an absolute right to use it the way you want anytime you want"
ADDITIONALLY, you agreed to this license by installing it on your Hard
drive. You have NO ONE TO BLAME but yourself. YOU walked into this
with open eyes.
ALSO, Vista does not get "tied into a knot" by itself. It takes
intensive user mismanagement to really get it messed up.
I didn't care as much with XP as it only cares about activation at
install time.
However Vista having the ability to bother me about it any given point in
time, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, whenever some code feels the need to
do so...that is something I do not like.
Sir, you certainly sound like a man who is afraid of computers. In
the first place, "code" never feels a thing. It has no consciousness,
no spirit, no life within it. Secondly, has only a single "need": To
accomplish certian tasks which are easier to perform using a computer.
Computers are tools, sir, nothing more, nothing less.
I do not wish to have my
hardware monitored by Microsoft for changes 24/7 for proof that I didn't
steal their operating system. If my purchase isn't enough proof then they
don't deserve my money.
Again you have misunderstood just what is happening.
In the first place, HOW would Microsoft even know whether you actually
purchased its software, unless you actually registered it before
activating it? Microsoft doesn't know who YOU even are. Nor do they
really care. All they care is that a certain CD key is valid or is
not valid.
Even if it's a rare occurrence that only happens once a year per
computer.
Sorry, friend, if it does occur with EVERY computer which runs Vista,
it certainly isn't that frequent, since I've never had to reactivate
unless I wiped the HD first before installing. Your fear is
unreasonable.
That means 10 times a year with 10 computers or almost once a
month statistically. And as far as I am concerned, one single time is
already too much.
You have a poor understanding of the science of statistical analysis,
I see. A statistician would consider such a sparce sample to be
almost unusable.
Anyway, your hypothesis is simply not applicable to reality.
I have no need to deal with that. Ultimately, disregarding some tasks I
have where Vista is useless for, my problems are with Microsoft's
policies and EULA that I don't agree with.
I used to disagree with it also. But after several months of
reconsideration, I believe the EULA is rather generous to users, and
much like past Microsoft EULAs.
Most disagreements folks have with it can easily be chalked up to a
basic misunderstanding of the License terms.
Hey, that is absolutely wonderful. Nothing wrong with enjoying Vista. If
it meets your needs and does everything you want it to do then that's
perfectly fine. Enjoy it! =)
NO OS could could ever "do everything you want it to." To use such
language shows your underlying fear of computers again.
I wasn't referring to thieves' profit from illegal copies.
I was referring to MS' profit of 9 copies of Vista they won't be making
from me.
I hope so for MS' sake. =)
If those people have enough which is "significant to Microsoft"
Microsoft will probably eventually listen to them. But bitching about
things which may or may not happen anyway is a waste of both
Microsoft's and your time, as well as ours.
It's easy to hypothesize, after all. Anyone can do it. While it is
sometimes healthy and helpful to hypothesize about bad things
happening, it usually serves no other purpose than to blow off steam.
Something tells me nothing lasts forever. Change happens, always and
inevitably. It may not be today, it may not be tomorrow. It is however in
the future and not a matter of "if", only a matter of when.
To me, this when happened with Vista and eventually it'll happen again
when something comes along to replace what I use now.
To you and others, it'll happen at a later date.
We will probably all be resting in the grave by then.
Change is not coming fast enough for me. I have seen little actual
"change" from Microsoft (and others) since the late 70's. I have seen
great changes with computing in general since then, however, and have
always embraced it willingly.
