It'll either make people upgrade or make people use a fake/pirated/stolen
number.
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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
Does anyone
see this as simply a drive to make people to upgrade to XP.
And a drive for an easy $15 ;-)
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Does anyone
see this as simply a drive to make people to upgrade to XP.
And a drive for an easy $15 ;-)
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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At 02:25 PM 05/05/2005, CW wrote:
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
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Yes. Also, customers shouldn't lose those numbers. Why don't vendors
simply put a sticker on or inside
(note: this is for Windows98 only, and applies for initially legally valid
copies)
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OK, I guess I've just missed
of people
who have a key you can use then they ought to charge you $ for wasting
their time ;)
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