From: Gary Britt 

Yep, I remember some guy who was either an idiot or a plant coming to an
os/2 forum back in the day and complaining that he decided to upgrade his
laptop to os/2 warp while out of town on business in his hotel room with no
backup disks available or tech people from his company to help him, and the
upgrade didn't go well and he couldn't do business and access his data.

I told him he was a moron for doing something like that (assuming he
actually did it), and got exactly what he deserved for being so stupid.

Gary

Rich Gauszka wrote:
> Somehow I get the feeling this was staged.  While I don't mind any bad
> publicity for wga activation, they could use a less ridiculous scenario to
> showcase it - problematic upgrade, didn't activate it ( driver issues? ),
> left it sit for a while, and after all that expected it to work once fired
> up agan for an important business trip the next day?
>
> -----
> Kay got the computer for testing Vista. He could have used a preloaded
> system from Microsoft, but "I wanted to do my own upgrade, just to get the
> experience," Kay explained. However, he told me: "It was never smooth.
> Drivers didn't work. Warnings kept popping up having to do with the WWAN
> radio. And it didn't activate when I typed in the key."
>
> Because of all the hassle, Kay said he "left it for awhile ... didn't use
> it." When he fired up the system, for an important business trip the
> following day, he was "outta luck."
>
>
>
> "Mike N."  wrote in message
> news:hc3jv29i7u1outnkal5cd0i69c1ch7djem{at}4ax.com...
>> http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/vista/one_deactivation_too_many.html
>>
>> "What happens when Vista goes into reduced functionality mode
on a Sunday
>> afternoon, and there's no handy authentication key? One trade analyst
>> found
>> out.
>> RK: Joe, you'll love this.
>>
>> JW: Hit me, Roger.
>>
>> RK: I'm totally locked out of my Vista upgraded system-no way to even roll
>> it back. A Dell 1210 with 2BG of memory that I used an upgrade disk on.
>>
>> JW: BitLocker?
>>
>> RK: Nope. It says I didn't activate, that my key is already in use that I
>> only get reduced functionality. But it's not enough to even roll it back.
>>
>> ......"
>>
>>  ROFL - BitLocker?  Nope - Enhanced Reduced Functionality Mode.
>
>

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