Agreed.......... As an MCSE and MCITP, I deploy Microsoft products frequently in my job as a consultant and network administrator. When Microsoft created all these activation methods and WGA, I was strongly opposed to it all as these activation methods only affect the paying customer. Anyway, a statistic I always share with others in the field is that Microsoft has never created an activation method that hasn't been hacked or comprimised in their companies history. I like Symantec's policy much better, using the traditional password-based security or no acitvation or key at all, like they do for their Endpoint Protection product. Most of their customers appreciate being trusted and Symantec saves tons of money by not creating all these useless activation schemes, unlike Microsoft, which dumps millions of dollars into securing their product, costing the customer time and money. The saddest part as we can see here at MDL, is that all their hard work is for nothing as users quickly find workarounds, such as the DAZ Loader for Windows 7 and even the Mini-KMS for Office 2010 for example. It's time for Microsoft to get their heads on straight and give up this pointless waste of time called activation or WGA and instead start treating their customer like a friend for a change.
Exactly... just give up on activation and lower the price. They need to lower prices dramatically. Windows 7 Utimate $40.00 Office 2010 Ultimate $20.00 Server 2008 R2 Enterprise $100, get rid of CALS Drop all the low end half-ass versions of everything.
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