Guys. I really wouldn't worry. Microsoft isn't going to be coming after
theresa. I certainly wouldn't pay another 200 dollars or more just because
I lost a sticker.
Now, ssomewhere it probably states that you must have a sticker if you have
windows CE, but I don't think that microsoft is going to be knocking down
your door if you don't have one. How would they know if you did? How many
people do you know that have some microsoft product on their systems that
they borrowed from a friend?
Now, I am not advocating piracy. Don't get me wrong here. She legally owns
windows CE and keysoft 6.11. She just can't produce the sticker. She does
have a receipt, but I think that microsoft has bigger fish to fry and
better things to do than running down a blind girl who lost a sticker.
At 8/7/2005, you wrote:
This has nothing to do with Microsoft, unless Microsoft is working with
Humanware/pulsedata.
theresa
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathy Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: lost sticker Re: [Braillenote] update
That sounds a bit extreme to me. I can't believe Microsoft hasn't delt
with the problem of people losing their stickers before. The sticker is
supposed to be on the unit where the system is loaded, but there is also
a certificate from which the sticker was taken, a seal from that
certificate package, and so on. Did you get all those things, or just the
sticker? If you have a receipt with the sticker number on it, seems to me
microsoft could be possibley persuaded to honor that as they will honor
licenses distributyed by schools on printer slips.
If Humanware didn't send you the certificate along with the sticker, I
would expect them to have record of the certificate matched with the
serial number it goes with. They certainly shouldn't be charging you for
another copy of the license they already solg you once. Just the
suggestion to buy a new license to replace a sticker rather than the
suggestion that they'd help you work it out with Microsoft seems less
than customer friendly to me. And the threat you might be in trouble with
microsoft is a lousy tactic to sell another license. Worst case you might
have to pay microsoft another license fee, but I would be really surprised.
How did you end up with a new version of WINDOWS to license without
having the sticker put on your unit?
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