They may have killed talks with Claria, because of the negative fallout, but it would seem that Microsoft are still looking to by a Behavioral marketing company. You have to ask yourself why.
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They may have killed talks with Claria, because of the negative fallout, but it would seem that Microsoft are still looking to by a Behavioral marketing company. You have to ask yourself why.
Thank you for the reply Nihil. To answer your questions:Quote:
Pretty much so, as I understand. Not for Win98SE and WinME of course, as they cannot verify those.
What are you running, where did you get your computer, do you have the Windows CD?
I'm running Windows XP Professional with SP2
I got this PC from my cousin but it DIDN'T have any software installed.
Yes I do have a Windows XP PRO cd which I got from a friend at work. (I no longer work their) I actually traded him a really old p1 200mhz PC for the CD. The CD does have the 25 digit product key code, directly on the cd itself. Now check this out, back in 2002 sometime in Feburary anwyays I went to Best Buy and I spent a $99.99 on the Windows XP home edition installed it on my PC several times then I went to install it on a friends PC a long time ago and it states that the product key code has been registered to many times please call Microsoft for Technical support and it wouldn't allow me to continue installing the Windows operating system after I went out and bought the CD this was back 3 years ago though. Thank you again.
Hi, Computerner22
OOPS! ...............That is a "snide"..........a fake. Macro$haft do not do that sort of thing. I build OEM version machines. I get the little booklet and the CD(s) and a couple of stickers to attach to the box...........I write the number from the sticker on the booklet (they will lose it in the first week :) ) I then write it on a card and scotch tape/cellotape/durex it on the inside of one of the panels ;)Quote:
The CD does have the 25 digit product key code, directly on the cd itself
What has happened is that a lot of software pirates created copies of WinXP, and used corporate key codes, as these don't have to be registered on a box by box basis. MS realised this, and brought in additional security measures.
As for your store bought version, they should give you a code, or reset the counter. All I have ever had is an automatic system that gave me the code. It seems to trigger on the fifth instance? The re-registration seems to get tripped by significant hardware changes or a complete reinstall.
Cheers
I have had to call MS a few times when replacing failed hardware to reregister....
No biggy
I have never seen an XP product code on the CD...usually its on a sticker on the side of the box.
MLF
Actually, Microsoft makes it's own bed of thorns...with it's Sell Now Fix Later policy...no other company could get away with that...could you imagine Ford knowingly putting out trucks that weren't in the final stages and had all kinds of corruption issues ( Sorry, bad example :D ) ? Microsoft routinely, in order to be first to market, sacrifices quality for expediency..eg. Sell Now Fix Later.Quote:
Seems like just another meritless reason for people to hate on MS to me...
Could you imagine going to the furniture store and buying a chair with three legs and the salesguy saying...' don't worry we'll patch that in a month or so...in the meantime just shift your weight to the side with two legs! ' :D
Yes...Microsoft gets alot of criticism...and they deserve it.
Eg ;)
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Originally posted here by jinxy
They may have killed talks with Claria, because of the negative fallout, but it would seem that Microsoft are still looking to by a Behavioral marketing company. You have to ask yourself why.
Because they want to compete with Google. Google is the biggest and most successful behavioral marketing company in the world. It would only make sense to obtain an organization that is already in existance and doing the work than trying to build it new.
Do a search on google for behavioral marketing you will see that just about everything that comes up is about yahoo, MSN, etc... all trying different ideas to beat Google's AdSense.