on feb 28th you are going to have to call to activate OEM windows keys

[zixxer]

I got an email from someone that works closely with MS related products.... he said that starting feb 28th, ALL OEM keys are going to have to be called to get activated, and will have a serious of questions to determine if you are the original owner.


WTF

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

shens!

 

[globalcitizen]

scam

 

[artikk]

Originally posted by: globalcitizen
scam

 

[captains]

Originally posted by: armatron
I got an email from someone that works closely with MS related products.... he said that starting feb 28th, ALL OEM keys are going to have to be called to get activated, and will have a serious of questions to determine if you are the original owner.


WTF

you should call MS to confirm that your key is stolen/hacked

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: captains
you should call MS to confirm that your key is stolen/hacked

"Microsoft here"
"Hey, can you help me, I downloaded this copy of Windows and I don't know if my key is hacked!"
"Ah...yes...say, could you read that key off to me nice and slow?":evil:

 

[zixxer]

Originally posted by: captains

Originally posted by: armatron
I got an email from someone that works closely with MS related products.... he said that starting feb 28th, ALL OEM keys are going to have to be called to get activated, and will have a serious of questions to determine if you are the original owner.


WTF

you should call MS to confirm that your key is stolen/hacked

huh?

we format enough computers at work to where having to call and activate ALL keys would be a nightmare

 

[zixxer]

it is true. There's no direct link.. but if you're a "MS system builder partner" then you've got an email that confirms it. He just sent it to me

 

[artikk]

Originally posted by: armatron

Originally posted by: captains

Originally posted by: armatron
I got an email from someone that works closely with MS related products.... he said that starting feb 28th, ALL OEM keys are going to have to be called to get activated, and will have a serious of questions to determine if you are the original owner.


WTF

you should call MS to confirm that your key is stolen/hacked

huh?

we format enough computers at work to where having to call and activate ALL keys would be a nightmare

is your sarcasm meter broken?

 

[zixxer]

On February 28, Microsoft® will disable Internet activation for all Microsoft Windows® XP product keys located on the Certificates of Authenticity (COA) labels distributed by large, multinational OEMs. This will help stop the theft and misuse of COAs, protect customers from being victimized, and drive business to honest system builders. To understand how this change may effect you or your customers, click here.

 

[artikk]

Originally posted by: armatron
On February 28, Microsoft® will disable Internet activation for all Microsoft Windows® XP product keys located on the Certificates of Authenticity (COA) labels distributed by large, multinational OEMs. This will help stop the theft and misuse of COAs, protect customers from being victimized, and drive business to honest system builders. To understand how this change may effect you or your customers, click here.

I guesss it's not a scam.

 

[zixxer]

Originally posted by: russianpower

Originally posted by: armatron
On February 28, Microsoft® will disable Internet activation for all Microsoft Windows® XP product keys located on the Certificates of Authenticity (COA) labels distributed by large, multinational OEMs. This will help stop the theft and misuse of COAs, protect customers from being victimized, and drive business to honest system builders. To understand how this change may effect you or your customers, click here.

I guesss it's not a scam.

I love how they act like the main point is to protect customers from being victimized, and all that jazz. it's all about $$$$$

 

[artikk]

Originally posted by: armatron

Originally posted by: russianpower

Originally posted by: armatron
On February 28, Microsoft® will disable Internet activation for all Microsoft Windows® XP product keys located on the Certificates of Authenticity (COA) labels distributed by large, multinational OEMs. This will help stop the theft and misuse of COAs, protect customers from being victimized, and drive business to honest system builders. To understand how this change may effect you or your customers, click here.

I guesss it's not a scam.

I love how they act like the main point is to protect customers from being victimized, and all that jazz. it's all about $$$$$

Everything is about the money. My history teacher told me that most historic events happened because of the money.

 

[aphex]

Hell i've had to call mine in from day one. I got it for free from Microsoft through their retail employee accomidations program and its never been able to activate online...

 

[imported_FishTaco]

Originally posted by: armatron
On February 28, Microsoft® will disable Internet activation for all Microsoft Windows® XP product keys located on the Certificates of Authenticity (COA) labels distributed by large, multinational OEMs. This will help stop the theft and misuse of COAs, protect customers from being victimized, and drive business to honest system builders. To understand how this change may effect you or your customers, click here.

Can you post the "click here" link?

 

[zixxer]

I've never had a problem activating oem keys... it really speeds things up; as lately I've actually had a waittime to activate MS products.

 

[zixxer]

Originally posted by: FishTaco

Originally posted by: armatron
On February 28, Microsoft® will disable Internet activation for all Microsoft Windows® XP product keys located on the Certificates of Authenticity (COA) labels distributed by large, multinational OEMs. This will help stop the theft and misuse of COAs, protect customers from being victimized, and drive business to honest system builders. To understand how this change may effect you or your customers, click here.

Can you post the "click here" link?

it takes you to a passport logon

 

[zixxer]

Direct OEMs of Microsoft (large multinational OEMs that that have a direct signed license agreement with Microsoft) usually preinstall Windows software using System Lock Preinstall (SLP), which is a direct OEM?s method of legitimately bypassing Product Activation on behalf of their customers.

One form of piracy occurs when Product Keys are stolen from Certificates of Authenticity (COAs) that have been placed on direct OEM machines where the Windows software was preinstalled using SLP. Pirates take the Product Key from these COAs and sell them to resellers or customers who then use them to activate a hard disk loaded copy of Windows.

To reduce the illegal trafficking of these OEM product keys Microsoft will ?disable? the ability to activate these direct OEM Product Keys over the Internet. When a customer or reseller tries to activate using a Product Key found on the list of ?disabled? Keys, the online product activation wizard will instruct them to call Microsoft where a customer service representative can assist them further. Call center operators receiving these calls will only issue an override key to customers who correctly answer a series of questions which manually verify them as legitimate.

The first phase of this Product Activation policy update will affect product keys from the top 20 Direct OEMs only. This policy will go into effect on February 28th with additional updates throughout the year to extend this policy to all OEMs authorized to use SLP. This change will affect all Windows XP product keys already shipped from the top 20 OEMs in the market today as well as shipments going forward.

 

[Viper GTS]

Is this only for activations on a different machine?

Currently you can activate OEM keys as many times as you want as long as it's on the same machine. Works great for us since we ghost all our laptops before we give them out. Many of our keys have been activated 5+ times as a laptop gets issued, returned, etc.

They're all legal & they're all on the original machine, if they make me call for this I'm going to be seriously pissed.

Viper GTS

 

[Ranger X]

Yay, more calls to India. I love how they pick up "American names" and how they try to speak in proper accent free English.

 

[zixxer]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
Is this only for activations on a different machine?

Currently you can activate OEM keys as many times as you want as long as it's on the same machine. Works great for us since we ghost all our laptops before we give them out. Many of our keys have been activated 5+ times as a laptop gets issued, returned, etc.

They're all legal & they're all on the original machine, if they make me call for this I'm going to be seriously pissed.

Viper GTS

same

 

[spyordie007]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
Is this only for activations on a different machine?

Currently you can activate OEM keys as many times as you want as long as it's on the same machine. Works great for us since we ghost all our laptops before we give them out. Many of our keys have been activated 5+ times as a laptop gets issued, returned, etc.

They're all legal & they're all on the original machine, if they make me call for this I'm going to be seriously pissed.

Viper GTS

Same here, I've got hundreds of machines like this.

Do you have any links to pages we can review?