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Microsoft eOpen Site Down For Nearly a Week
mauriceh writes "Since Monday Dec. 7, the Microsoft eOpen license website has been mostly 'Down for Maintenance.' When we do not see this message, we still do not see most of the normal functionality. As this is Microsoft's main channel for managing and installing licenses for products such as Server, and for open license products for business, this makes the company effectively 'closed for business!' Attempts to connect to https://eopen.microsoft.com/ are redirected (after a bad certificate warning) to https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/servicecenter/sitemaintenance.html. For those who wish to activate Microsoft Business Solutions software need to obtain Software Registration keys, and these also can not be obtained, as the site http://www.microsoft.com/BusinessSolutions/MBSRegistration does not resolve; instead one gets a Microsoft Search page. Telephone calls to their support numbers for the licensing program yield either busy signals, or a message saying one should 'call back later.'"
and they are trying to upgrade it to XP instead...
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
Don't worry, they will be back a couple of weeks after new year!
/ The Arrow
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The rest of the internet is like a sweatshop-slavery conditions! No time off not even on Chrismiss! But Microsoft allows the interent to take a vacations with its family and frineds in this holiday season, which promotes social justice and peace.
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but somehow I couldn't get a license :(
I guess they were too busy trying to fix this problem?
[insert a whole bunch of DRM schadenfreude here]
This sounds like a trick question, but I'm not sure which answer I'm supposed to give.
It isn't like they are a technology company or something.
See my journal for slashdot ID's by year. Mine created in 2005. http://slashdot.org/journal/289875/slashdot-ids-by-year
oh, wait, just got slashdotted
Same shit happened to pretty much all of my clients. I've been insisting that people keep all of their licensing info registered so that they have an easy off-site access point in addition to their regular documentation backups, to keep it "safe" and quick to get at - and after all where better then the very vendor who insists on all that activation and serial number crap, surely they will appreciate their customer's efforts! Even if it is a truly vile de-facto monopolist vendor such as Microsoft ... but then again I guess not.
Naturally, half of them lost their own copies and so now any and all changes involving license codes are pretty much foobar until Microsoft finds its ass-hole again, utilizing the provided flood lights, both of its hands, the hands of 32-part-time contractors, a radar-ass-hole-finder, an ass-hole-finding map and an "Idiot's Guide To Telling Your Ass-hole Apart From a Hole In the Ground". Hopefully sometime before 2012 rolls around.
On the other hand it has served as perfect example to point to when demonstrating the dangers of "licensing" combined with single-vendor-dependency, irrespective of how "popular" and "gigantic" that vendor is, to pointy-haired management.