Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's all true, but the fact remains that people who have legally
purchased the software are being penalized for being human. I have no
problem with the proof of purchase or the $15,
Penalty being the proof and the $15.
but the time frame is
Use a command line scheduler and built in FTP in
command line (cmd)
I didn't know I could use scripting with the command
line FTP. Cool.
As you can transfer a file from one server to another without downloading with
no problem, can scripting be used to have an FTP client transfer a file
Does anyone
see this as simply a drive to make people to upgrade to XP.
And a drive for an easy $15 ;-)
Seriously (and here's where I will get catcalls) this is why I wish MS -did-
have a way to force more people to literally upgrade; If you're still running
Win98, etc. I'd prefer they almost say sorry, we don't support that product at
all anymore
You can say oh, that's unfair but call Ford and
Thane Sherrington wrote:
But MS doesn't allow aftermarket, so that's not a fair comparison. If
all I do is Word Processing and Email, why should I have to upgrade my
Pentium 233 to XP (which would require a hardware upgrade as well?)
Keeping the auth number generator software costs MS
At 02:38 PM 05/05/2005, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
How can you be sure the support time is really covered by $15? These
problems go away of the customer keeps up with their own info...
Hmmm...
underpaid Indian worker gives fax number to caller - 3 minutes
looks at fax - 1 minute
Loads keygen
On 5/5/05, Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 02:38 PM 05/05/2005, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
How can you be sure the support time is really covered by $15? These
problems go away of the customer keeps up with their own info...
Hmmm...
underpaid Indian worker gives fax number to
Thane Sherrington wrote:
At 02:38 PM 05/05/2005, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
How can you be sure the support time is really covered by $15? These
problems go away of the customer keeps up with their own info...
Hmmm...
underpaid Indian worker gives fax number to caller - 3 minutes
looks at fax - 1
At 02:54 PM 05/05/2005, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
You really think those are all the costs involved? The generated income
must pay for *all* costs involved...
Oh Christ, Anthony, you win. MS is losing billions a year on this stuff,
I'm sure.
T
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FORC5 wrote:
customers should NOT need numbers, KEYS
SUCK. and always
have
IMO
:-}
I agree.
customers should NOT need numbers, KEYS SUCK. and always
have
IMO
:-}
At 06:58 AM 5/5/2005, Anthony Q. Martin Poked the stick with:
Thane Sherrington
wrote:
This is lovely. The new MS
rule on regenerating Auth numbers for people with CDs and lost
numbers. You fax in a proof of purchase (must be
I'm comming into this conversation way late... So are they charging for the KEY or the authentication number?On 5/5/05, Anthony Q. Martin
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FORC5 wrote:
customers should NOT need numbers, KEYS
SUCK. and always
have
IMO
:-}
I agree.
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OK, I guess I've just missed the point.
Can anyone show me a single instance where MS has prosecuted a home user for
borrowing a key?
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From: Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 11:53:51 -0500
To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com
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From: FORC5 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: [H] New MS rule/keys suck
Yes. Also, customers shouldn't lose those numbers. Why don't vendors
simply put a sticker on or inside the
(note: this is for Windows98 only, and applies for initially legally valid
copies)
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Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 3:59 PM
To: The Hardware List
Subject: Re: [H] New MS rule
OK, I guess I've just missed the
OK, but at question here, if I understand correctly, is the generation of
keys for older OS (98 specifically) your example that a borrowed key works
seems to highlight my position of: if you're really out a 98SE key, and you
waste the time calling them instead of finding any of the millions of
http://tinyurl.com/dpjmy
bad boy for sure, where are they headed, condensers mounted OUTSIDE :-!
:-}
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Tallyho ! ]:8)
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If it's more than you need, it's greed.
Definitely big, but you need an absolute monstrosity to passively keep the
mini nuclear furnace that is the Intel Prescott cool.
Greg
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Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 10:45 PM
Subject: [H] coolers
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