Next time I add a drive it'll be when I'm reinstalling XP anyway, so no more of this garbage

[napoleonherself]

When we hooked wilson's drives to the new mobo and power supply and such, Windows XP bitched about how it wouldn't work anymore unless I re-activated it.

Eh. Fine. Fuck you very much, Microsoft, here's your umpteen-digit key, shove it up your ass.

Today we made the MAJOR CHANGE TO THE SYSTEM of adding in that CD drive, and... needed to re-activate XP again.

And when I re-entered the damn key, I was informed that it had been used too many times (i.e. TWICE) and that it would never work again.

So we had to call Microsoft for a new key.

Yes, folks... today mecha, acting in my interest since I was at class, had to call Microsoft to get permission for me to keep using my computer.

It is a sad world we live in.

Comments

[nidoking.livejournal.com]

Which is why it causes so many people who DO use legit versions problems.

[darnn.livejournal.com]

True, but I'm not going to pay $230 for XP. Sorry. If they made it cheaper, more people would buy it and protection wouldn't need to be so strict.

[nidoking.livejournal.com]

Supply and demand. And in the computer age, that phrase takes on a whole new meaning, as the market shrinks to exclude software pirates who will find ways to copy software no matter what protections are in place. Replace the human race with a new species that has the capability of mass lawfulness, and your argument might hold water.