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Windows Meets New Motherboard - Scott Adams' Experience

posted by LaminatorX on Sunday December 21 2014, @05:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the genuine-advantage dept.

Nuke writes:

In his blog, Scott Adams describes his exasperating experience following a change of motherboards. Central to the story is the fact that he has two phone numbers for Windows re-activation, both of which claim they are an official Microsoft call center and that the other is a scam. Neither are any help anyway. Seems to be a topical issue right now.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Sunday December 21 2014, @06:49AM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday December 21 2014, @06:49AM (#127942) Journal

    From the article:

    To help prevent consumers from falling prey to these scammers, Microsoft offered the following tips:

    • Do not purchase any software or services from someone claiming to be from Microsoft.

    Given that I'm pretty sure Microsoft claims to be Microsoft, that's a very interesting advice. ;-)

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Marand on Sunday December 21 2014, @09:04AM

    by Marand (1081) on Sunday December 21 2014, @09:04AM (#127969) Journal

    • Do not purchase any software or services from someone claiming to be from Microsoft.

    Given that I'm pretty sure Microsoft claims to be Microsoft, that's a very interesting advice. ;-)

    Sounds like it could be their Windows 8 sales strategy.

  • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Monday December 22 2014, @02:25AM

    by Wootery (2341) on Monday December 22 2014, @02:25AM (#128205)

    Yeah, total garbage. I wonder what moron put this together.

    Ask if there is a fee or subscription associated with the “service.” If there is, hang up.

    Yeah, because Microsoft would never adopt a subscription model [wikipedia.org].

    The advice they give on what not to do is total garbage, but the worst part is that they give literally no advice at all on what you should do. For instance, one might think that a phone-number or email-address specified on a microsoft.com page might be trustworthy.