You really have no idea what you are talking about, the activation keys were not needed for installation nor to run windows, the beta testers were able to install and run windows without any problem at all. This isn't passing the buck but just simple facts. There was a substantial grace period when the beta was fully functional and when the keys needed to be entered and there has been zero reports from vendors of unusable beta installs.
Speaking generally of activation however, on finished product that isn't *free* as this windows beta was, activation in general is a bad idea. But with this case that you brought up, there was no issue whatsoever, you just wanted one more issue to flog MS with, even if you had to make one up. On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Tom Piwowar <[email protected]> wrote: > >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. > > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
