Vista - Microsoft extends Vista bulk license discount to Europe

http://news.com.com/Microsoft+extend...l?tag=nefd.top

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

Buyer beware with the family discount. I bought a home premium license
through that plan for $49 and think I ended up with something in
between a retail version and an OEM version. Plus headaches.

I bought a license, installed it, no problems. Then a few weeks later
I upgrade my memory. I get into VISTA and it says my license has been
deactivate because of a hardware change.

I called MS and got shifted around to different people for 1 and 3/4
hours because no one can make heads or tails of my "family plan"
product key and how to generate a new key for me. I am so glad that
initially they routed me to the wrong dept. and the tech support
person stayed on the call throughout the whole ordeal. I could tell
he was empathizing with me after the first hour, but he could only
follow procedures and he had no ability to generate a key for me. He
also said a few times that he couldn't promise I would get a new key.

I still have a sour taste from the whole incident and now look at MS
as an evil empire. A little dramatic, but talk about feeling like you
were ripped off!


On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:36:31 -0400, "Richard Urban"
<richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote:

>http://news.com.com/Microsoft+extend...l?tag=nefd.top

<atodzia@cox.net> wrote in message
news:tgbg0352so3avu2qhh81i20vtdll8u4un8@4ax.com...
<snip yet another activation horror story>
>
> I still have a sour taste from the whole incident and now look at MS
> as an evil empire. A little dramatic, but talk about feeling like you
> were ripped off!
>

Then refuse to be a victim. Call your CC company and demand a refund. You
were ripped off. Consider the copy of Vista payment for the 1.5+ hours of
your time.


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Mike

Sorry that you had such a difficult time.

You should have simply tried to activate vista again. When the activation
over the internet failed you would have been given the option to activate by
telephone and a toll free number would be displayed. This would connect you
to the activation center and it would have taken about 5 minutes to
complete.

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Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User


<atodzia@cox.net> wrote in message
news:tgbg0352so3avu2qhh81i20vtdll8u4un8@4ax.com...
> Buyer beware with the family discount. I bought a home premium license
> through that plan for $49 and think I ended up with something in
> between a retail version and an OEM version. Plus headaches.
>
> I bought a license, installed it, no problems. Then a few weeks later
> I upgrade my memory. I get into VISTA and it says my license has been
> deactivate because of a hardware change.
>
> I called MS and got shifted around to different people for 1 and 3/4
> hours because no one can make heads or tails of my "family plan"
> product key and how to generate a new key for me. I am so glad that
> initially they routed me to the wrong dept. and the tech support
> person stayed on the call throughout the whole ordeal. I could tell
> he was empathizing with me after the first hour, but he could only
> follow procedures and he had no ability to generate a key for me. He
> also said a few times that he couldn't promise I would get a new key.
>
> I still have a sour taste from the whole incident and now look at MS
> as an evil empire. A little dramatic, but talk about feeling like you
> were ripped off!
>
>
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:36:31 -0400, "Richard Urban"
> <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>http://news.com.com/Microsoft+extend...l?tag=nefd.top