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I remember hitting that on Vista when I swapped out a motherboard that died, circa 2007. It asked me to call a phone number. So I did. I explained to the phone
by asveikau 6y ago
I remember hitting that on Vista when I swapped out a motherboard that died, circa 2007. It asked me to call a phone number. So I did. I explained to the phone rep what I did to cause the error. They asked me where I got my copy of Windows. I told them. They unblocked me.
- encom 6y agoHow nice of them to grant you permission to run their software on your machine!
- dddw 6y ago... that you already paid for
- asveikau 6y agoTo me it was amusing that they put up this barrier, but hired a staff of humans to make sure you could bypass it. I suppose that could be a gate to prevent people from installing on more machines than the license allows if done at scale. But doesn't lock out legit reinstalls from paying customers. For a cost to MS, to employ that staff.
- pjmlp 6y agoIt also helps sorting out issues where everything fails. This is what makes a big difference with doing business with Google and having to deal with bots instead.
- ziml77 6y agoI believe the scale part is correct. They don't want anyone sharing the software, but they especially want to stop people from selling illegal copies and to stop businesses from using a single license across a hundred machines