MSDN Path to Product Key?

2007-01-15 Thread Kevin Cully
I've received my DVDs for the M$ Empower program (MSDN) and I'm trying to install XP inside of VMware on my Linux laptop. All is going well until ... I have to enter the product key. They gave me a card with several product keys but not for any of the XP OSs. The card states to do this and that

RE: MSDN Path to Product Key?

2007-01-15 Thread Rodney Dixon
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Cully Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 9:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MSDN Path to Product Key? I've received my DVDs for the M$ Empower program (MSDN) and I'm trying to install XP inside of VMware on my Linux laptop. All is going well until ... I have

Re: MSDN Path to Product Key?

2007-01-15 Thread Kevin Cully
Whew. I think I finally figured it out. I had to associate my Partner program subscription with the MSDN thingie and then all sorts of other things showed up. One of them allowed me to get product keys. Confusing as heck! Thanks Rodney! Rodney Dixon wrote: 1. Go to

RE: MSDN Path to Product Key?

2007-01-15 Thread Rodney Dixon
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Cully Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 10:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MSDN Path to Product Key? Whew. I think I finally figured it out. I had to associate my Partner program subscription with the MSDN thingie

Re: MSDN Path to Product Key?

2007-01-15 Thread Whil Hentzen (Pro*)
Rodney -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Cully Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 10:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MSDN Path to Product Key? Whew. I think I finally figured it out. I had to associate my Partner

Re: MSDN Path to Product Key?

2007-01-15 Thread Ted Roche
On 1/15/07, Whil Hentzen (Pro*) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quality is Job 1.1 over there Well, it was supposed to be in Job 1.1, but it didn't make the cut: when Job 1.1 was due to ship, Microsoft decided that Quality didn't meet its standards, so it has been deferred to Job 1.1 Service Pack

RE: MSDN Path to Product Key?

2007-01-15 Thread Rodney Dixon
LOL Regards Rodney -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 11:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MSDN Path to Product Key? On 1/15/07, Whil Hentzen (Pro*) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: MSDN Path to Product Key?

2007-01-15 Thread Kenneth Kixmoeller/fh
On Jan 15, 2007, at 10:06 AM, Whil Hentzen (Pro*) wrote: turns out the data entry idiots at MSFT spelled my name wrong - despite the fact that my email address, with my name in it, was the next item to enter. Did they see Whil and oh-so-helpfully correct it for you? I suppose that there

Re: MSDN Path to Product Key?

2007-01-15 Thread Kevin Cully
* XP Is full installed * 63 patches installed * VFP Installed with SP1 installed ... and it's pretty peppy! My vfp benchmarks are showing that it's about twice as fast inside of VMware with XP on my Duo Core 2 1.8GHz than my XP P4 2.4GHz. Of course, I'm not running virus protection, firewall,

Re: MSDN Path to Product Key?

2007-01-15 Thread Whil Hentzen (Pro*)
Kenneth Kixmoeller/fh wrote: On Jan 15, 2007, at 10:06 AM, Whil Hentzen (Pro*) wrote: turns out the data entry idiots at MSFT spelled my name wrong - despite the fact that my email address, with my name in it, was the next item to enter. Did they see Whil and oh-so-helpfully correct it

Re: MSDN Path to Product Key?

2007-01-15 Thread MB Software Solutions
Whil Hentzen (Pro*) wrote: snippedStep 3. I respond: Yes, I know that. (Look in the Subscriber Information section below.) As I stated in my email, I've already tried that, and I still get the The data you provided could not be located in our system Step 4. They respond: Thank you for

Re: MSDN Path to Product Key?

2007-01-15 Thread Whil Hentzen (Pro*)
Don't you just love them? snipped That's because they have something in their call center logic like this: IF Caller = 'HENTZEN' then f*ck with him since he's a Linux guy do quality1_1 ELSE regular customer do quality2_0 endif HAVEN'T YOU BEEN READING THE THREAD??

Re: MSDN Path to Product Key?

2007-01-15 Thread MB Software Solutions
Whil Hentzen (Pro*) wrote: Don't you just love them? snipped That's because they have something in their call center logic like this: IF Caller = 'HENTZEN' then f*ck with him since he's a Linux guy do quality1_1 ELSE regular customer do quality2_0 endif

Re: MSDN Path to Product Key?

2007-01-15 Thread Mike yearwood
Hey Will gdrvf They've got my last name _misspelled_!! So it'd have to be if caller = Hentzen or caller = Henten or caller = Henzen or caller = Hertzen or caller = Hanson or caller = Henson that muppet guy? or caller = Hansin or caller = Hertzenwerke or

Re: MSDN Path to Product Key?

2007-01-15 Thread Grigore Dolghin
InList() would be a nicer approach, unless they don't have more than 25 of your aliases :) On 1/15/07, Mike yearwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Will gdrvf They've got my last name _misspelled_!! So it'd have to be if caller = Hentzen or caller = Henten or caller = Henzen