Why is it that servers not getting activation keys to the beta testers
does not counts as "screwing up the activation keys"? The phrase
simply says that there was a problem with the keys, not that the
wrong keys were sent.
Also, if you want to compare MS to Apple, the proper comparison is
OS vs OS. Funnily enough, OS X doesn't have activation keys.
I didn't mind the MobileMe problems, which lasted maybe a week for
one of the issues and two weeks for the other one, because Apple
apologized profusely and gave me 3 months free each time. A
half year's free service for a few weeks of subpar performance was
a very good deal for me.
Arstechnica.com reports that they screwed up the activation keys.
Yawn.
We can trust you to misstate pretty much everything. It does get old,
though, a little.
They didn't "screw up the keys". The problem isn't in the keys. Or in
Windows. The problem is in the servers getting the keys to the beta
testers.
It's a good thing that Apple is so good at this kind of thing,
otherwise
they might also have had server problems rolling out new products.
Hey, wait
a minute!
And, oh, yes, the beta works without the activation key anyway.
Unlike the
iPhones that couldn't be activated.
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