Swap’s Blog

Ah, it feels good to be on a safer, faster and a friendlier OS. It was high time I quite windows and moved on to better systems. To clear it out, I am not Anti-Microsoft. I still use their products and of course the Xbox 360.

But Microsoft clearly need to work on their product and interact with customers closely. I would prefer to go back to Windows XP than work on Vista. It’s buggy, is heavy on resources and unstable. Their piracy division is a joke. I would advise them to spend more time speaking to customers than working on how to beat piracy. A live example:

I got a fresh Windows XP license for my Macbook (backup OS). When trying to activate online, it didn’t accept my product key saying it’s invalid (WGA says pirated). I called them up and the rep said it’s pirated. When I contacted them by email, they said it’s a case of hardware change and advised me to call up again and inform the hardware change that took place.

In my defense, it’s the first time I ever used the product key. Second, I wouldn’t be crazy to tamper my Macbook hardware (except perhaps RAM). From what I’ve seen you system validates computers running pirated version of Windows. So, dear Microsoft, it’s time you scrapped the WGA program and spend your resources on something useful such as making a stable (original) OS.

It’s a bitter good bye to a long relationship and probably for the good, hello Mac

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Swap

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