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Play nice now people. :)
echrada, what is your plan for when Windows 8 comes around?
Technet Plus changed and Reduced number of Keys to 5
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New #192
Had to sign up to post this..
I got an e-mail from them when I requested 3 additional keys for 2 products that I maxed out at 5 and 6 keys. They flat out said "No, you can not have more keys" to that effect.
This is after their phone support told me "No problem, just request the keys via e-mail".
So, there, dispite what they "SAY", no more keys will be given to you.
However, they DID say there is possibility of "Resetting" the already activated keys so that the activation # will show as being 0. I do not know what the implication for that is for already activated boxes.
IF I was selling the keys, I would have already harvested all 10 right off the getgo so I won't be affected by this sneaky change in terms of contract. I would think only people who suffer from this seemingly draconian response to the pirates seems to be the people who has been harvesting the keys as they are needed.
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New #193
I really hope that when windows 8 comes out, they make a public beta and RC1 release like they did with Windows 7 that lasts for nearly 1 year. That was a great way to get the masses test and figure out if the new release was for them.
With regards to activation, I also had them tell me for my company that if I hit my MAK key limit to call and they would likely just increase the # of activations or reset to zero.
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New #194
This is 100% spot-on nail on head. i didnt harvest all of my keys, just what i needed. which means i dont have any win7 ultimate keys left, and even though i can just start using the same key on different machines it is not what i thought i paid for. and its obvious to me that if i would have just hoarded as many as i could, i would have been better off now.
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New #195
Ans #1 - I agree if you are a home user, however I am a corp user and sometimes we are testing in many different agencies, buildings and around the world. So being restricted to 5 has already changed our R&D model.
Ans #2 - Imaging and then using on different hardware prompts the newly imaged machine to re-activate (Windows 7 and Office 2010). It is smart and knows.
Ans #3 - Yes many times we use the 120 days, but sometimes we need longer than that. There may be many issues that cannot be resolved in that short of a time, hardware, vendors, special software, re-working existing software, other servers that have to be replaced or updated before you can do real testing.
Just my 2 cents.
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New #196
This may have been posted earlier in this thread. If not, here's an article by The Register: Microsoft secretly yanks TechNet product keys
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New #197
Next thing you know, they'll be taking Technet away completely and just selling $99 "developer" copies of Windows, where a dev "only" has to pay $99 for each key. And who's going to get burned by it? I'll give you a hint: it won't be the pirates.
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New #198
"Shhhhh -- You aren't supposed to RELEASE that yet -- this is due for implementation on Jan 1 2011 as we have to sucker all our EXISTING suscribers first".
Actually I think their way of "Anti Piracy" is going the WRONG way -- reducing to just TWO keys for the STANDARD subscription should see some of the more well known places significantly increase their activity.
It's been proved OVER and OVER again -- in fact Ad Nauseam that the more expensive and difficult to obtain you make a product the more the Pirates work at it -- Music industry a great case in point until some people saw sense at selling tracks at 50 - 99 cents a track.
I really wonder who works at these giant corporations -- even your local friendly Gorilla in the Zoo could work this one will just cause a MASSIVE increase in Piracy -- and with W7 really stable these days you could use it for YEARS without needing updates -- so no detection of "This softwre is Not genuine" type problems.
Incidentally one of the MOST Pirated pieces of Software is PHOTOSHOP due mainly to its HUGE price.
I paid for mine via legal upgrade but when a brand new copy can cost more than your ENTIRE PC
you can see how a whole industry gets spawned.
There has to be a SENSIBLE compromise between REWARD for intellectual property (W7, Photoshop or whatever) and the price charged to customers.
However we are veering away from the central issue of MS sneaking in a change without informing their customers.
This WILL spawn Piracy big time -- just wait and see.
Cheers
jimbo
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New #199
I think all here agree that MS might have handled this situation better.
MAYBE, the reason they didn't notify anyone was to prevent a run on the keys that had not been claimed. Many have mentioned they did get all the keys they were entitled to. Less keys obtained, less keys MS has to worry about. Just a possible explanation. Kind of like the Police Department not announcing they'll be at xxx St. on Monday looking for drug dealers, yyy St. on Tuesday, and on Friday they'll be watching the house on the corner of ddd St. and ggg St. for illegal consumption of Famous Amos chocolate cookies.
Just cuz we don't know MS plan, doesn't mean there isn't one.
IMO, you'll never stamp out piracy, there are bad people in this world who do bad things on a constant basis, regardless of the circumstances.Last edited by 24c; 24 Sep 2010 at 10:22. Reason: spelling
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