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

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: 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.

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