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posted by chromas on Friday November 09 2018, @11:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the S.N.A.F.U.-as-a-Service dept.

Computerworld:

A bug in Microsoft's activation server has led to pandemonium among people trying to activate or re-activate their Windows 10 Pro licenses. No need to panic. Microsoft will fix it "within one to two business days." (Try telling your boss that.)

If you see a bogus report about an invalid Win10 Pro license, relax. It's just Microsoft's servers screwing up, again, and everything should be copacetic in a couple of days.

On Twitter, Windows leaker emeritus Faikee posted this screenshot:

[...] There's also a lengthy diatribe on Reddit.

[...] The only breath of hope that I've found comes from the Microsoft Answers Forum, where Daniel Randy quotes a Live Agent response as saying:

Thank you for sharing, Daniel. Microsoft has just released an Emerging issue announcement about current activation issue related to Pro edition recently. This happens in Japan, Korea, American and many other countries. I am very sorry to inform you that there is a temporary issue with Microsoft's activation server at the moment and some customers might experience this issue where Windows is displayed as not activated.

Our engineers are working tirelessly to resolve this issue and it is expected to be corrected within one to two business days, Daniel.

But Ask Woody says it's fixed now:

I followed the updated troubleshooting steps posted by João Carrasqueira on Neowin and, bada-boom bada-bang, it’s all activated now. The Steps:

  1. Click Start > Settings > Update & Security
  2. On the left choose Activation
  3. Under the top section, click Troubleshoot

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  • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Saturday November 10 2018, @03:00AM (1 child)

    by RS3 (6367) on Saturday November 10 2018, @03:00AM (#760214)

    > Interesting. I've often wondered myself what might have been if Novell had ported Netware to Unix back in the 90s, rather than sticking with their crap server UI. They had the edge in file/print services as well as huge market share. And the NDS (x.500) directory was years ahead of Active Directory.

    Hmmm... I miss that server screen saver! Back in those days we had much less RAM. In roughly 1994 I remember 16 MB RAM cost $2,000. The point of Netware was that it was a bare-metal OS, running the x86 at maximum efficiency. Having done a bit of assembly and studying clock cycles per instruction depending on which mode the CPU ran in, you learn that you gain a huge number of clock cycles per instruction- mostly ones with memory fetch- in protected segmented mode. I once wrote a cogent argument (for one of our salesmen) for why our Novell-based systems were better than Unix / Windows (even though I was a Linux fan)- that the server was a maximally efficient server- no GUI stuff. I even wrote that people can't play games on the server.

    You really didn't do much server admin on the server- mostly done on a workstation. The older tools were full-screen text menu-driven, and newer ones were Windows GUI, but the server is just a server. Even now I run my Linux servers in text mode only. Trivial to run GUI apps on a workstation though the network if I need them, although I pretty much never do.

    I did .nlm development. Nothing went to customers, but certainly could have. Still have the books, Watcom compiler, etc. I don't remember any pain, just a bit of learning Watcom and the usual API stuff. Bringing back memories...

    My only criticism of Netware was that it was cooperative multitasking. But again, remember the CPU speeds and available RAM in those days (early to mid 1990s).

    You probably know Linux supports IPX/SPX well.

    Yes, I agree Novell should have built better GUI admin tools sooner.

    I think they would have helped themselves by fully supporting NFS on TCP/IP, and SMB.

    Yes, NDS was way ahead of MS.

    I blame MS general heavy-handedness, and razzle-dazzling non-technical business people who made the decision about which OS to run. Also, I've heard horror stories about Novell's business practices, although I never experienced any. I just remember how efficient Netware was. I thought "elevator seek" was brilliant, for example. I'm still not sure what a "bindery" is nor why I need one.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 17 2018, @12:11PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 17 2018, @12:11PM (#763060)

    It really incensed me since their reasoning was so retarded given the other crap they have been bloating the kernel up with. IPX is not a security issue if it is not used, and deprecating it or defaulting it off would solve any security issues if not maintainability ones.

    Seems like the Social Jackoff Warriors are winning at making Linux as handicapable as they are.