Windows 8.1 Activation...(A rant)
So I got a new motherboard to replace the same model of motherboard that was defective thinking at least I won't have to reactivate windows.
Well, fat chance.
I got this windows 8 during the introduction sale discussed on RFDs shortly after it was released but never installed it. Installed it and the motherboard was defective, etc. New one connected, says I have to reactivate. I click it, tells me I have to call MS. Used the automated system to read eight sets of numbers back, with I think six numbers in each. Three of those sets contained 666 btw, the irony. The robot asks how many systems has it been installed on, I reply "none" because this is a well known MS trick question. It then says to click activate and there's no activation button there, finally find it, and it takes me to another page with no activation button. They patch me to India go through the routine with him and screw up because I don't speak Hindi English and finally after typing hundreds of numbers in again get it activated.
So, if something goes wrong with this motherboard, or I decide to switch it to another computer, I have all this to go through again? I need to learn Linux.
Well, fat chance.
I got this windows 8 during the introduction sale discussed on RFDs shortly after it was released but never installed it. Installed it and the motherboard was defective, etc. New one connected, says I have to reactivate. I click it, tells me I have to call MS. Used the automated system to read eight sets of numbers back, with I think six numbers in each. Three of those sets contained 666 btw, the irony. The robot asks how many systems has it been installed on, I reply "none" because this is a well known MS trick question. It then says to click activate and there's no activation button there, finally find it, and it takes me to another page with no activation button. They patch me to India go through the routine with him and screw up because I don't speak Hindi English and finally after typing hundreds of numbers in again get it activated.
So, if something goes wrong with this motherboard, or I decide to switch it to another computer, I have all this to go through again? I need to learn Linux.