Microsoft AU is not a trustworthy organization at all. The last Action Pack that I bought from them also was supposedly Pirate so you could have something there. M$ is supplying both sides of the market the Legit and the Criminal Side and they sometimes get mixed up and send the Pirate Product to the Legit Customer. :D
But I've seen WGA do exactly the same thing on a small Business computer after the guy died and the wife tried looking up something several months after the death for the Tax Man. It locked before the Log ON Screen insisting that there was Pirate Software installed on this system but when it had a Repair Install done it worked quite happily with the supposedly Pirate Key. I've also had a M$ Error message tell me that there was no CPU Fitted but I didn't quite believe that one either. As I didn't think that the Monitor could show anything without a CPU. :^0
I only have this issue with one Government Department here and they drive me crazy. I particularly liked them reporting me to M$ for selling them Pirate Software as M$ got all hot and Sweaty over a 2,500 Site License being Pirated or some Volume License being used on a 2,500 install base in a Government Department. The funny thing here is that M$ deal direct with the State Government and sell them all of their software. I just got lucky with this one as it was too big for their IT Staff to deal with or maybe they simply refused to deal with them after they implemented XP when it first came out. Apparently some Idiot at M$ insisted that with the New XP you didn't need Servers so that is how this was originally setup. Then when the Government IT department refused to fix the mess that I latter learned they had tried to prevent happening and where overruled by the person in charge of this office. I got called in to have a look see and find a solution. Been a Nightmare ever since and no matter what I have tried I can't loose this one problem customer who don't pay bills in under 12 months drive me and my staff crazy with insane requests and so on. :(
Well at least they where talking about moving to Vista the last time I was there so maybe they have and I have finally lost them completely I can [b]Hope[/b] can't I?
But I just loved dealing with M$ the time before last when I had to speak to someone from their Legal Department because I had supposedly sold them Pirate Software and then I was transfered to another person to get a new Product Key on the surface sounds reasonable but I was transfered to the same person who I had just been speaking with and she organized a New Product Key for me. :_|
M$ is looking more and more like a Bunch of Bureaucrats to me and I don't enjoy bashing my head against Brick Walls. But that is exactly how I feel whenever I need to deal with this over this 1 Government Department. Thankfully I refuse to do Government or Medical Work now so there are no others and as soon as I can get rid of this one I will happily see the end of them even if I have to wait another year before getting paid. :D
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