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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, Insightful) by bzipitidoo on Sunday December 21 2014, @07:34AM

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Sunday December 21 2014, @07:34AM (#127950) Journal

    > Had to get install media from HP

    You blow off waiting around for snail mail or traveling to a bricks and mortar place, and just say the rest of the process was smooth? Which, it wasn't. You shouldn't have to key in anything at all. Didn't have to do any such thing for Windows 2000. What did you use to do that part? A Live CD? An old computer you had to dig out of storage? A friend's computer? Well, okay, Windows is now programmed to give users some grace, let people connect and surf the Internet for a few days before insisting on a license key, to eliminate that chicken and egg problem. But still, not smooth.

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