----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Ruset" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "The Hardware List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 9:44 PM Subject: Re: [H] MS gets serious about activation
Out of curiosity, what did the customer need from XP Pro?
This was a "know it all" customer who does not wish to discuss their reasons for their decisions. My orders were to simply "do it" when he handed me the Windows XP Professional Upgrade version that he had paid $180.00 for 30 days after he has paid me $90.00 for the line item (my new computers are sold piece by piece on a line item quote) Windows XP Home OEM. Backtracking, that same "know it all" attitude was displayed when he ordered his new computer with Windows XP Home OEM. Have you noticed that people who know it all have used that knowlege to acquire more money in a year that most of us will earn in a decade? They can not stand a poor man telling them how to invest.
This same customer prides himself in owing the first computer I ever built as a business in May, 1998 and is out to prove that what I build runs forever, or at least for as long as he lives.
Chuck
