Tonight I was forced to activate Windows Vista over the phone because Vista assumed that I changed my hardware.

Despite how much #@$! this is to begin with, the huge problem here is that I did not change a single thing inside of my computer. Vista simply assumed that I did. In fact, the only thing that I changed were drivers.

This situation is even more uncomfortable because I use the OEM version of Vista, and that means that I have a limited number of activations. One of those activations were just wasted because Vista is such a monumental idiot that it believes that changing software drivers is the same thing as changing the physical hardware.

That’s just fantastic, isn’t it?

The pirates keep doing what they’re doing and are never hampered by this stuff. The rest of us pay out the money for it and we get this kind of BS treatment.

Screw you, Microsoft. After this point I am much more likely to turn to The Pirate Bay to get my system running again rather than your cockeyed activation system. If you want to treat me like a pirate, then blast it, I may as well be a pirate. At least then my system will actually work when I need it to.

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