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[Dick Dowdell]

On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday 06 August 2014 13:14:51 compdoc did opine
> And Gene did reply:
> > > Hard drives, net cards, and even motherboards die.  To be forced to
> > > buy
> >
> > yet another copy
> >
> >
> > I replace dead motherboards and drives for customers on a monthly
> > basis, and reinstall Windows each time using the same license.
> > Microsoft is very generous and cooperative is this regard.
> >
> You might be able reach them on the phone in a timely manner, at the
> number shown in the paper accompanying the license key. I OTOH, as the CE
> at a tv station with a news reporter whose motherboard died keeping the
> back of my neck warm, don't have time to listen to their hideous music on
> hold for the hours or in one case several days, starting a fresh call
> every morning about 8:30 Redmond time, putting that crap on the speaker
> phone because I really did have other things to do until such time as they
> deign to answer the blinking light.
>
> > It amazes me how anyone can justify piracy based on their lack of IT
> > skills, or their bias towards Microsoft or the music industry or any
> > entity because they charge for their products.
>
> I have yet to talk to anyone at Microsoft that didn't spend the first 5
> minutes of the conversation berating me because as far as they were
> concerned, I was just another pie-rat.
>
> > And this doesn't excuse the stupidity of suggesting the use of infected
> > software in these lists. The very first hit on google for ' Remove***'
> > tells you to disable your AV before running. The reason for that is
> > the infection it includes.
> >
> > I'm not a gambler, but I would be willing bet that Liam will be
> > responsible for the infection of dozens if not hundreds of computers
> > by the time these posts circulate the web in the next few days. Not to
> > mention being responsible for piracy of that many copies of Windows.
> >
> > Windows is a great product.
>
> Until it breaks.
>
> > And so is Ubuntu. Have some integrity and
> > show some intelligence.
>
> Integrity?  I have no problem admitting I am wrong.  It has even happened
> on this list a few times.
>
> Intelligence? I was tested at 147 on the Iowa IQ test in '47.  I made a
> 98% on the AFQT in the Korean war years along with about 135 other kids,
> whose next best score was 36%. More recently I kept a medium market tv
> station on the air for the last 18 years of my working life, but back up
> the log I had fingerprints in the cameras that were on the Trieste when it
> went down into the mohole in 1960, I sat for the 1st phone in '62 without
> cracking a book, and I did the same for the journeyman C.E.T. certificate
> a decade later, each time turning in the finished tests in 1/3 to 1/4th of
> time allocated.  All that on an 8th grade education because I got bored
> and decided I'd druther fix these newfangled things called tv's.  I went
> to get a GED because the then new wife insisted. 2 weeks later, no
> pass/fail had been received.
>
> Cornering the test administrator at the post office, I asked about it and
> his reply was "why do you care? You WERE just doing it for the exercise
> weren't you?"  Damn, guilty as charged. ;-)
>
> I also have a diploma from the University of Hard Knocks, where I got the
> majority of my schooling since even in the 4th decade of the last century,
> the schools were being dumbed down.
>
> So be careful whose intelligence you impugn.  Us old farts can be a
> treacherous lot...
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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I too have run afoul of overly restrictive Microsoft licensing rules.  My
laptop came with Windows 7 Pro and I wanted to use Ubuntu with a Windows 7
virtual guest.  After making my Windows recovery media, I reformatted the
hard drive, installed Ubuntu and VBox, created a Win 7 VM, and installed
Windows 7 from my recovery DVD.  I was unable to activate Windows because
Microsoft tied the license to the specific machine and would not accept a
VM on the same piece of hardware.  No amount of discussion with Microsoft
was able to solve that problem.  Even though I owned the machine and the
Windows license for that machine and was installing it on only that one
machine, I could not activate it.

I have to agree that Microsoft has been very flexible with Windows licenses
that I have purchased directly and that I have been able to move them from
motherboard to motherboard and machine to machine over time (only one PC at
a time) with a simple phone call to Microsoft.  The only problem is with
licenses that came installed on a PC.
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