My condolences. That's like the ULTIMATE poster example of why MS / WGA sucks;
you've called them so many times to beg and plead "oh please, Microsoft, may I please use my ULTIMATE OS that I paid $400 or whatever for now that I've reinstalled my PC for the 10th time? Oh? Hey? Anil, is that you, I remember you, you've handled my last seven activations. How are the kids? Are they in college yet? Ok, thanks, I'll call back next week for another hour of soothing muzak on hold and to get my next installation key because by then I'll have changed something else about my system that upsets VISTA."
What do they charge for phone support $200/hour or whatever? They should be paying YOU to call in to request their beneficently letting you use the OS you've already paid for!
Though I own more copies of Vista than I expect I'll need anytime soon, I can certainly envy the pirated/cracked versions, at least then one doesn't have to put up with all the
Windows Genuine Disadvantage of waiting and begging outsourced phone support to use one's own bought property.
If Honda did this there'd be a traffic jam at the call center at 7:30AM while everyone requested a new key for their car so they could drive to work that day!
IMHO it wasts enough hours of my life dealing with Microsoft's buggy/broken/limited software after the product is 'working' to easily forgive wasting more hours of my life just for the permission to install it to then go through the rest of the trauma of using it.
Originally posted by: Puffnstuff
I've probably called ms 15 times since I bought vista ultimate retail. This is why I bought the retail version because I can move it as I please or upgrade as I please as long as it's only on one machine at a time. Since my hardware is the same as the last time I phoned in to reactivate I can activate online. If I change it and do another clean install I'll have to phone them again. The last time I told them I'd called so many times that I'd forgotten just how many times it was now. I've changed out my stuff 3 times since I bought vista.