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How Windows Product Activation was created [video]
- happytiger 4y agoThis is the actual feature that drove my family to the mac. We just felt like windows was going in the wrong direction — that generally the convenience of the customer came after the profits of the company and to this day we still feel that way about Windows. The windows activation failed (and it failed not infrequently) to customer service, which meant talking to a customer service agent which was not a particularly pleasant experience, and also made us feel like we were guilty until proven innocent. The overall experience was reason enough for my family and my company to abandon Microsoft for apple and Linux, and I’m glad we did. Our support costs dropped from almost 3 days of downtime a year per developer to less than 1 by switching to Apple on the desktop and Linux in the datacenter, and we’ve never looked back.