It's 2013, and Windows Activation Is Still Frustrating

Deathspawner writes "There's little that's more frustrating than being a legal customer and getting screwed over by the company you're supporting. If there's a perfect example of this, it's with Microsoft's OS and its millions of customers that have had to ring its tech support lines for activation help. Recently, a Techgage writer got bit by an issue with Windows 8 — caused by Microsoft itself — and wasn't even able to call to fix it. Microsoft has two problems to solve here: it needs online chat support (like most large companies in 2013) and it definitely needs an activation system that doesn't make things difficult for its legal customers on a too-regular basis."

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Re:its 2013

[slashmydots]

Please, come back to reality. You're making open source software users look like idiots again. Here we need to run an app that only runs on Windows. That is not uncommon. The end. Calling me lazy just proves how ignorant you are.

Re:Thank me later.

[Sable Drakon]

If you're an Ubuntu user, and can't get your Windows PCs to see the Ubuntu systems, or the Ubuntu systems to see the Windows machines.... Frankly, you're an idiot. First time I tried accessing a Windows machine or setting up a shared directory, Ubuntu has ALWAYS prompted me to install Samba, which I do, which completely fixes the problem your stupendous amount of idiocy can't seem to over come.