Hi I would appreciate it if people would read my reply to a very good windows xp activation article as I would like to share my disgust from this day forth with microsoft and their utter disregard for their end users ....see my reply below ......Ive have covered the following below but I urge like minded users to think about what its like to be treated like you are
1. a thief
2. are extremely dumb and actually believe that xp activation actually benefits you and cannot see microsofts real motives ....however see below
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Hi initially i must say that I think your article is very good ......and it shocked me to find the methods microsoft are using for the activation such as checking hardware configurations .......the minute I was read this I thought OMG what if i want to do some major upgrade on my machine and then offcourse I read the next few questions and find the article author obviously realised this as well.
Now to my situation.......I am passionate about PCs and I live in my house with my 2 parents who are pensioners ......anyway I was using windows millinium and I decided to buy a legitamate copy of xp pro oem for home use for myself and also put it on my parents machines , I assumed everything would be ok(silly me should have read the small print) and my computer with windows millinium on it was running fine so I decided to install xp pro on my fathers machine as it needed some maintenance after being running sometime ......anyway I installed it on my machine today and got the activation screen so I thought I would go through the process and it would be fine but to my utter disgust I only have a 30 day trial.......anyway one of my parents phoned up the support line while I got my installation id and he explained to them that theres just the 3 off us in the house and were all home users with no bussiness and the persons attitude was terrible .......they basically tried to say that it was for the benefit of customers(ME and others like me
)and to help prevent piracy .....hmm kind of stupid considering we explained we have a legitamate copy......I then took the phone and became extremely angry ........basically microsofts solution is for people who are in low paid jobs or unemployed to purchase 1 copy per machine .......hence I was expected to buy 3 copys (HOW RIDICULOUS) which would total approximately £255 ....... At the end of the day we are a family who are FAR from rich as implied we dont get lots of cash; we all chip in together to make ends meet and it is unrealistic to expect anyone other than the extreme rich or software pirates to be able to use microsoft windows......the ironic thing is I have in the past said to people that microsoft isnt that bad.......that is until they have brought out this activation crap whos only purpose is to line the pockets of the microsoft directors. I personally will be more motivated to port to a linux flavour now and I also feel that it is about time users started boycotting the companies that quite frankly are treating users like thieves who are also severely dumb. One final thing .......I realise I made a mistake purchasing the oem version but the standard version was way out of my price range and is not worth the hefty price tag.........a more potent issue than that is the fact that microsoft are checking a systems spec and using it against legitamate users in a way that feels like spyware to me.
Regards
David
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1. a thief
2. are extremely dumb and actually believe that xp activation actually benefits you and cannot see microsofts real motives ....however see below

article reply start---
Hi initially i must say that I think your article is very good ......and it shocked me to find the methods microsoft are using for the activation such as checking hardware configurations .......the minute I was read this I thought OMG what if i want to do some major upgrade on my machine and then offcourse I read the next few questions and find the article author obviously realised this as well.
Now to my situation.......I am passionate about PCs and I live in my house with my 2 parents who are pensioners ......anyway I was using windows millinium and I decided to buy a legitamate copy of xp pro oem for home use for myself and also put it on my parents machines , I assumed everything would be ok(silly me should have read the small print) and my computer with windows millinium on it was running fine so I decided to install xp pro on my fathers machine as it needed some maintenance after being running sometime ......anyway I installed it on my machine today and got the activation screen so I thought I would go through the process and it would be fine but to my utter disgust I only have a 30 day trial.......anyway one of my parents phoned up the support line while I got my installation id and he explained to them that theres just the 3 off us in the house and were all home users with no bussiness and the persons attitude was terrible .......they basically tried to say that it was for the benefit of customers(ME and others like me

Regards
David
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