>But I don't think mine was really far off the mark anyway. In both cases the >issue was a server problem, unrelated to any problems in the products >themselves. Tom was trying to make this into a problem with Windows 7, which >it clearly is not.
You keep slicing and dicing every MS problem to find any way you can to put the responsibility on somebody else. When a company chooses to have an activation key that very much becomes an integral part of the product. The product will have limited use without it. It becomes the vendor's responsibility to make sure activation works all the time. I hate activation becaue I see such products suddenly and unexpectedly ceasing to function. This often puts customers into great crisis when they have been working to meet a deadline and suddenly get bupkis. They lose contracts, lose grants, lose legal cases, lose reputations, etc. This is not small stuff. When a software company demonstrates that it is unable to activate products reliably it is a very serious failure. It marks the product as unreliable and the company as highly incompetent, an unreliable business partner. Windows 7 is now tainted. If you recommend such a product to a business and the business later has losses due to that product's failure you should be held accountable too. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
