Sure, get the $600 subscription to MSDN or Technet.
You are experienceing exactly what Microsoft wants you to. This is why
Microsoft put those systems in place.
Vista has not been released to the public. It's release date is slated for
January 30, 2007. It is sending you to places where you will be able to buy
the license after it is released. Downloading pirated software is not a good
idea. Microsoft's press release said that these are the things you will
experience with WGA and SPP. The time of Microsoft's "Blind eye to piracy,"
is over. And Microsoft is sending that message out in a major way.
the only choices you have are either to deal with reduced capability, or
remove it and put RC1 or RC2 back on and wait for the market release of
Vista. I know it sucks, but that's the breaks.
Besides, lets be honest, hacked copies are crappy anyway. and buying a
license for a hacked copy is straight foolish. Be honest, do it right.
Just a thought.
"UnionDatacom" <UnionDatacom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I get my Vista RC1 Beat copy in the mail, and install it. I love the OS,
>but
> it’s buggy. I got RC2 my email, and it was improved. Close enough to
> stable,
> so I kill my dual-boot config and start using it, knowing I’ve got 6
> months
> before it expires and that I can easily buy it retail by then, that was
> the
> plan anyway.
>
> So a few weeks go by and I see RTM on the Internet, but I don’t get a
> copy
> of that one in the mail. MS no doubt wants me to buy it. I’m thought that
> wouldn’t be a problem, but I can’t find it. I own a telecom company in
> Dallas. I have a few hundred Win2K3 licenses, and a dozen or so XP License
> on
> workstations: spending plenty of money with MS, but my vendor doesn’t have
> Vista, and I can’t find a vendor on the MS Partner site to sell it to me.
> I
> leave all kinds of voicemails with these rinky dink outfits, but no one
> really has it to sell me TODAY. Not even retail like Best Buy, or CompUSA,
> nobody.
>
> But I see it all over the Internet, my techs have it, my friends have it,
> but I don’t have it. So I download it, and read the details. It seems that
> this pirated RTM copy simply installs and pretends to be a beta. Now we
> all
> know even the RTM is going to have quite a few patches in the next few
> months, so in my mind the only difference is that this “beta” is a little
> newer than RC2. So I install the pirated copy, apply the crack, and I’m on
> Build 6000 that thinks it’s RC2.
>
> Well, that worked for a few weeks. Then MS released some Genuine
> Advantage
> Activation thing, I UNCLICKED that update knowing it wasn’t a good idea to
> install on my “pirated” copy, and it installed anyway. Then Vista disables
> my
> Aero (not sure why that even matters, but I miss it), and brings up the
> Software Licensing window at awkward times, steals focus, and generally
> pisses me off. But I had a previous experience with Genuine Advantage on
> XP,
> and you could complete the form, give MS your Credit Card, and they’d sell
> you a legitimate license right then. A truly ingenious move on the part of
> MS, no telling how much money they made off that one feature, converting
> lazy
> pirates to customers.
>
> But in Vista, there is no such option. The Buy Now button sends you to
> option screens, that send you to companies that can’t even sell you the
> product, not even a volume license, for any amount of money.
>
> So can someone, anyone, tell me how to buy the damn product today? I don’t
> care what it cost, I don’t even really care what version it is. I just
> like
> the basic features and want to upgrade my personal machines, and my office
> machines.
>