I reinstalled Windows XP today for the 50th odd time since purchasing the box and I get an product key is no longer valid error...
WTF...
So I have to call the damn hotline and I get some automated lady...who wouldn't say yes to a date...???
Then when she couldn't get things rolling she directs me to some dude with such a forced English tone/accent it was almost humourous
We both actually got a chuckle by group 5 of 6 digits...as I couldn't understand the guy worth a damn and we both started to laugh realising it was kinda funny
What was weird...is he almost had a Japanese/English tone although I figure he was likely from India or around there...seeing as their the outsource captial of the planet
In anycase, depsite the chuckle and his constant unesscary apologies...I explained I wasn't mad at him...but M$...but still he apologized...
What a <span style='color:blue' title='I'm naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span> off...so M$ says now that I can't reformat more than 50 or so times in one license without reauthenticating my product code???
Geeeeeeeeeeeessss...
I think i'll start tomorrow by building my own distro from scratch...
Ambitious perhaps...but I learn best from the ground up...
Damn it M$...and here I was a supporter since almost day one...of Windows anyways...
Doh!!!