OK..First off, I'm ashamed to admit I keep windows XP on my new computer to play games. Ok..so I've had some problems with it(what do you expect from m$?) , and have been forced to reprogram it three times now. So I just finish everything up and go to get that damnable activation over..type a few letters and numbers and hit submit...piece of cake. But no! Microshit only lets you activate the same disk twice automatically. So I'm forced to call the asshats at microshit for activation...windows shuts down or something if you don't activate...don't care to find out really. So anyway...onward with the story. I call them at their tollfree number, and get a fucking machine (please excuse my profanity, I'm really pissed) Now, me and answering machines don't really see eye to eye, no matter how fancy they may be. So after arguing with the automated system for 5 minutes of my life I'll never see again, I get transfered to an actual person...getting better. Ok..so I sit on hold. I also hate hold with a vengeance. After 10 minutes on hold this dumb bitch picks up. I'm good and pissed now mind you. She asks why I've needed to activate it 3 times. So, expertly controlling my temper (which is very very short) I explain the situation. Then the bitch asks if I have it installed on any other computers in my house. Here's where I started to lose it. I said "look, I just told you why, I'm not fucking stupid enough to use Microshit on my other computers, I use Linux, now cut the crap, I just want to activate it" oh, ok she says and proceeds to ask me for this long ass fucking number..which, I give her through clenched teeth. She then reads back an equally long ass number and I enter it, hit next and finish registration. So she's getting ready to hang up, and says "have a nice night dear" I hate it when strange women call me dear. I exploded! I asked her if the call was being taped, and she said it was, so I asked if I could make a comment, and she said I could. So I said something to the effect that Microsoft is an evil corporation for first gouging us on the price of the OS and then only letting us activate it twice, computers fuck up. It's ridiculous that people still use MS if they keep going in this business practice. At which point I hung up. I'm still pissed, I just got off the phone 15 minutes ago..and I'm still not calm.
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And I was right, it's complete bullshit that they do that to people. 100+ for an OS when I can get a better one for free? don't be ridiculous. And then...yes..then! you make me activate it or it shuts off. Now that's insult added to injury right there. BUT when you only let me activate said software twice after the exorbiant price? That's downright criminal. So I gained MORE hatred for M$ tonight, and officially extend my kudos to this website and fellow Linux users everywhere. Keep up the good fight, and it is my earnest prayer that someday, we'll see M$ a bankrupt company and Dildo Gates crying in the gutter...surrounded by shattered fragments of Windows XP disks. Break M$'s Monopoly.
