It really is like taking candy from kiddies, but one thing that never changes is how incredibly good f***ing Microsoft is at stealing your money and f***ing everything up.
Today’s screw up: I needed to move my virtual installation of my paid-for legal copy of Windows XP from one computer to another. Move. Not “duplicate”. Windows XP noticed this (well, that’s amazing in itself) and screamed to mommy, wanting REACTIVATION!!!!
Ok.
So I reactivated. And got told I wasn’t allowed to, ‘cos I’d done it too many times (like about 4). So I get this amazing dialog:
Yes, I have to call a helpline (probably hosted by HeidiSoft in Alpenschwizerpfloangliswurstelikon, where they speak nothing but some bizarre inbred swiss german dialect) (and have no sense of humour) and read out, yes, Fifty-F***ING-FOUR digits.
I’ve no idea how it would actually pan out, because the phone number given doesn’t work, and the help URL on the page before is invalid.
Maybe I’ll just forget it.
There are no comments for this entry yet.