My Windows 7 machine has been nagging me for weeks that it could not register, I need to enter a valid product key. So I enter the one THEY EMAILED ME. It tells me it cannot activate, enter a valid product key. I give up and use windows for those few unbearable minutes I need it. Week later, I turn the VM on, same thing. Week later, same story. Finally it tells me I have five days or my computer is going to blow up or something. So I try to use their activation software, it tells me to call a number but doesn't tell me the number. Finally I go to the damn email Microsoft sent me with the product key THEY SENT ME that apparently is invalid, I lie my way through the stupid voice message system and get to talk to some lady in india who likes to talk while I am talking.
First she tells me, after getting my first name and my email address, that she has to put me on hold for a minute to help me. I ask her what exactly she is going to do to help me when she has absolutely no information about me or my system. Oh that's right, so what is your product key. So then I have to read this stupid 40 character string of gobbledeygook to her after which she puts me on hold. The she comes back, tells me that IS A VALID KEY and she has no idea why my shit windows won't activate. Then I get to open this applet that gives me an even LONGER string of numbers which I must read off, then she returns me an equally long string of 45 freaking numbers. Finally, she assures me, it is activated. I ask her why I had to do this, she says she doesn't know. I ask her am I going to have to do this every time she says no but I WILL HAVE TO DO IT EVERY YEAR.
Most people use this shit software. If they will put up with this nonsense, RFID implants and hand scanners for free lunch are a walk in the park - they're a "convenience."
I fucking hate Microsoft's software, and more and more I am hating that anyone tolerates this nonsense. This shit is indoctrinating society into becoming numbers in a vast machine of consumerism.
Fuck Windows.