[olug] NOT OT - What did i need to do this weekend? And last weekend?

[Rob Townley]

Wasted more time with licenses.

Probably at least one of you had problems activating MS software this
weekend or last?

Purchased product keys more than 24 hours before MS's system went down
Friday, but still do not have access to them nor any of our keys.
This site went down about lunch time Friday and was supposed to come
back Sunday at noon, then it was delayed to Monday at 7pm CST.
https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/servicecenter/


Last weekend, i assumed i forgot my rarely used @hotmail.com account
passwd.  Nope.  There was no indication the site was down for
maintenance - just assumed i had the passwd wrong or there was some
cookie conflict or Firefox on Linux, but in fact the site was down.
Big downloads would have to wait.  Funny, all those dvd sized open
source ISOs that i download without problem on a regular basis do not
have a billion dollar company backing them up.

The database may be large as it contains all the keys since at least
XP needed activation, but it is mainly customer names, addresses, and
product key related info.  hotmail isn't down this much, so they must
not care about customers as much as they advertise.  i am surprised i
don't hear others complain.   Another reason to go completely open
source.