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Some Windows 10 Pro Users Say Their PCs Are No Longer Activated And Are Been Prompted To Downgrade To Windows 10 Home (betanews.com)
If you're having trouble activating your Windows 10 Pro computer today, you're not alone. Forums and social media networks are getting flooded with complaints from users who say their machines have automatically become deactivated. Users say they are having trouble connecting with Microsoft's activation servers, with some saying they are being prompted to downgrade to Windows 10 Home. According to Microsoft Answers, the company is working to resolve the issue. Only users who had upgraded their computers to Windows 10 by using product keys of Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 appear to be impacted.
Nice to know that the OS has a dependency on other people over the interwebs not f*cking up, and still existing so you can simply turn your computer on and use it.
I for one, am glad I don't use an OS with such a f*cked up dependency.
Linux, internet or no internet, it still works. kernel.org goes away? Still works. Botched kernel upgrade? Roll back to previous version (in the time it takes to press reset and press an arrow key to select the older kernel), still works.
Microsoft - Activate or die. Looks like you don't even stay activated if things don't work out at their end. Good to know.
Brings light to how stupid these copy protection schemes are. Everything discussed here for the past 10 years is becoming reality.
Their QA is outsourced to their victi... customers. They're officially producing bananaware now.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
It's truly amazing how much abuse some users are willing to take just to use Windows. The only explanation that makes any sense at this point is that they like the abuse.
I am pretty sure that I have said this before, but for home users the issue is not that they like the abuse. At least, that seems to be the case with the family and other folks who I know who come to me for tech support. Rather, the situation exhibits the classic signs of co-dependency: the person remains in the abusive relationship because they fear that things will actually be worse if they leave the abusive the relationship.
In fact, I recall one friend, who had a history of tech support problems, who was considering getting a new system and who came to me for advice. About the only thing this person used the computer for was web, email, Facbook, and photos. I recommended a Mac for them instead of a Windows machine and the look on their face was practically terrified. As bad as the problems were they had experienced with Windows, they were yet more afraid of something different.
Of course, for businesses the situation is really all about institutional inertia.
Once again, legitimate users are impacted more by DRM than the "pirates."
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
Sadly Gnome 3 sucks more than Windows Vista
Sounds like a good reason to use KDE. :)
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
They don't realise that alternatives exist, or are only aware of Apple but don't have the budget for it...
Indeed the common perception is that computers are inherently unreliable and insecure and that's just the way it is. This perception is entirely down to microsoft being both ubiquitous and such poor quality for all these years.
Look at all the tv shows with characters which can trivially hack into any system, or computers which are constantly failing to work correctly - this is the perception that microsoft has generated.
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Sounds like I'm gonna have to ditch Red Hat / CentOS. Love KDE Plasma.
Yes, but it wasn't the entire bloody user base. Those people were choosing to do be beta testers, the people affected by this most certainly did not.
MS is now literally deciding that everyone is a beta tester whether they like it or not, and seem to be consistently putting out stuff that is nowhere near tested enough.
Microsoft is releasing lower quality stuff, relying on their telemetry to tell them what went wrong, and then if users are lucky Microsoft will fix something they should have found before release.
Essentially Microsoft doesn't give a damn if they break your machine, your busted machine costs less to them than doing proper QA.
If this is the quality of Microsoft's QA, they're going downhill very quickly.
And, you know, more or less run the Internet.
Not only 96.5% of web servers and 85% of cloud services, but also > 85% of all phones.
But not desktop computers though. Which account for what, 45% of web browsing activity, wher Linux has approx 1.5% of the market.
"Also interesting that even if you've successfully downloaded and installed the game on their closed system they're constantly re-validating you"
This is just in case they change their mind ...
M$ is working on making you PAY for Windows every 6 months to one year. The software that controls this hiccuped and deactivated Windows. Soon you will be getting warnings that your PC is about to become deactivated unless you update (Pay) your subscription. Yeah, Fuck M$. Already made the move from Win7 to Mint. Enough of this horse shit.
Professional operating systems do not deactivate themselves for specious reasons. Therefore, Win 10 Pro is not worthy of the "Pro" nomenclature, and customers of Win 10 Pro are not getting what they paid for.
Those "cry babies" you refer to? They are more accurately known as irate customers who paid for a professional-grade product, and damn sure have the right to be mad when shit like this happens.