Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 23rd Oct 2007 18:55 UTC, submitted by Dan Warne
"After weeks of gruelling troubleshooting, I've finally had it confirmed by Microsoft Australia and USA - something as small as swapping the video card or updating a device driver can trigger a total Vista deactivation. Put simply, your copy of Windows will stop working with very little notice (three days) and your PC will go into 'reduced functionality' mode, where you can't do anything but use the web browser for half an hour. You'll then need to reapply to Microsoft to get a new activation code. How can this crazy situation occur? Read on for the sorry tale."
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Member since:2005-11-11
I see. So your original advice to "get a Mac" in order to avoid Windows activation woes was more like "get (buy, for money) a Mac and use it in addition to your other computers". Yeah, great.
So to summarize: in response to Windows activation suckiness you advise to get a Mac. I say Macs are too hardware limited. You say get the Mac and continue to use my old machine for hardware freedom.
My point was that for me, *nix gets me that freedom from activation and freedom of hardware at the same time without the expense of multiple machines. Macs work for many, but as before "get a Mac" isn't advice that does me any good.
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