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----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Brown" <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "list" <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 6:44 PM Subject: [LUG] "Bloody' Microsoft > Hi All > > I'm a thief and a crook and you need to arrest me now! That's how > Microsoft reads this bloody silly situation. > > Please forgive my swearing but I have just spent a fairly stupid day > and a half trying to fix a stupid stupid piece of software called XP > only to discover when I call MS that I am a thief and a crook. > > It all comes down to the fact that xp licences are tied to the disk > you use to install them with. My mates hard drive went and so he says, > "Can you help?" "Yes no worries" - pull out old hard drive wack in > new. "Have you got your xp disk?" I ask. "No I haven't", he says. > "Don't worry I have a copy", I innocently reply. > > Basically the xp licence refers to the xp disk and vice versa and so > when I went to validate it wouldn't let me. It kept saying this is not > validated, do you want to validate. Click yes and then it would say > this product is already validated. Endless loop of mindless nothing. > > Doom to Microsoft for the ultimate in rubbish. I buy a licence but I > can't use it on another hard drive in the same computer because they > are a bunch of prats. > > And after all this the said mate won't install Linux. He would rather > go and buy another ms product! > -- > Kind regards > Rich > http://www.cregy.co.uk > Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. > Romans 12 v 1 > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html > The main problem with XP is the fact there are several different versions of the cd for the install. eg XP home OEM XP home Retail XP home Upgrade ( sure they mean downgrade here) XP home OEM with SP2c (new type of XP key) XP pro OEM XP pro Retail XP pro Corporate XP pro Upgrade (downgrade here as well) XP pro with SP2c Andrew -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html