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

[Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227)]

There's a good reason the only M$ product I use is the copy of Windows 7 on
my
work computer.... I even use OOO instead of M$ Office at work!

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
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