iloco opened this issue on Dec 29, 2005 ยท 52 posts
lingrif posted Fri, 30 December 2005 at 6:27 AM
Microsoft's tactics with activation infuriate me. But I'm a hardware junkie and I'm always tweaking my machines and building new ones. I have a legal license for every machine I own - unfortunately these machines keep changing and that's where I run into activation woes. So far, MS has been accomodating, but it is a pain to go through. For the average user, activation poses no problems. They buy a machine with the operating system installed and use it until they buy another machine with the OS installed. But with application software, I tend to sympathize with the vendor. I've worked for software companies for over 25 years, and it is the sale of the software and service agreements that keeps a roof over my head. If everyone could just get a free copy of our software, we would be out of business. And I couldn't afford to be a hardware junkie anymore. It's that simple