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It is indeed a puzzling question.
I agree that if something is causing a problem and you have SLAs to deliver, the temptation is to rip it out and replace it. I am sure that we have all been along that route?
I would say that the concept applies to applications and hardware as well os OSes.
My "position" if you could describe it as such, is that vendors should not be able to "get away" with this sort of nonsense. They sold their product in good faith, so they should be obliged to keep that faith with their customers.
We also have to bear in mind that for many users and in many situations there is no practical alternative. The User and/or enterprise want a particular environment.
So, every time a small proportion of users have this sort of problem, there is a downside in adopting a different solution. This is that the vendor is not sufficiently harmed by loss of business, they have less incentive to get their side of the bargain right, and they have had their money already. It would be better if they were obliged to make a refund of that, at least :)
I do agree with the comments on commercial/institutional products and domestic/home ones.
Up until XP that is what happened. Then I suppose they decided to cut their development and support costs by merging their "desktop" OSes? I guess that is where the problem has arisen? Their attempts at DRM haven't been able to differentiate between corporate and individual licences.
As for *nix, I have always regarded this as a perfectly viable alternative on the server side, which is not where MS should be having DRM problems anyway? I could be wrong there, but I always had the impression that it was the the desktop deployments that MS was concerned about.
I appreciate that you are probably way too busy, but I would still be inclined to give them some "corporate consumer" grief over it..............then maybe you can get those copies of Vista for free, as compensation?
:D
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Does anyone know how to get rid off this patch without redoing the whole OS?
I have a few machines at work which are affected.
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The person who started this thread found a patch that seemed to work, you can find it here:
Windows fix
And the second patch:
Patch 2
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On a realted note, I was going to use windows for my mail relay I am building. Did you catch the key word? WAS. :p
I am now 3 days into SuSE, Spammassasin, ClamAV, Maia Mail Guard, MySQL, DCC and Postfix. Getting this stuff to work together isn't easy. Sure MS and GFI would have been up and running in about an hour and I am three days in but... I am having fun.
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Well Shik a tik,
Sorry for the double post but I was needing a file configuration off that box so I restored the image. The genuine window kept pissing me off so I got curious. WTF was marking this PC as invalid in the eyes of our lord MS. Like I said I have the ****ing cd right here in front of me. So I clicked the grotesque little blue star and got this bit of info...
My local clock is more than 5 days off from the Lord's validation server. Curious. The tool seems to flag your copy as invalid if your time skew is MORE than 24 hours. I changed my clock ran the validation tool and our lord and savior Thanks me for my pittance. His mighty coffer is at ease say ye. So I feel kind of idiotic. But think of MS their customers and grandma who hasn't a clue why her windows has cast her into the purgatory of would be thieves?
Alas the annoying icon is still there however after several minutes. So I clicked it again and told it to make me "genuine" in my faith. Behold the word of our lord:
Ordering Process Unavailable[0x80080403]
The Windows Genuine Advantage Kit for Windows XP is currently only available to users of known invalid Product Keys for Windows XP Professional and Windows XP Home.
Tis a vicious circle, and now I must recycle my Valid key and shake hands with grub once again.
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Hahahahahahahahahahahhahaha. Don't you love that? It's greta huh? Hahahaha...
Your clock made you a criminal.
What time is it? Tux time! lol.
And as you said pretend you were computer illeterate. You'd be on the phone while soem nerd tried to tell you to buy a new copy because of what time it is!
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Yeah dude I can't even pretend to say how absolutely messed up that is. WHO the **** is MS to say what date or time I can keep on my clock. This is a friggin test machine I use to VERIFY stuff is working and turn back the clock on events that take place. They want us all to be part of their internal domain it seems. The "Collective" the Genuine Advantage Club. :rolleyes:
It does have it's comical element though. :D
