[simpits-tech] FSX Acceleration pack activation...

[Robert Reed]

Ya I have a vlid key. Don't know for what. I was on the Beta team and it
no longer works.


Bob Reed 

On 9/3/11 7:44 PM, "dabigboy at cox.net" <dabigboy at cox.net> wrote:

>The whole activation thing is a 100% huge waste of time, effort, and (for
>businesses, and MS) money. I remember back when XP was going to be the
>first Windows version with the limited activation thing that phoned home
>to MS. Everyone was up in arms..."What if I replace my motherboard? What
>if my hard drive dies? What if I do an entire rebuild? What if Windows
>simply hoses itself and must be reinstalled, as it is so wont to do from
>time to time?" Apparently MS saw the ultimate impracticality of such
>draconian measures, because it is possible to active XP literally as many
>times as you want. Even if you get elevated to a "live" tech, they always
>ask the same question: how many computers has it been installed on?
>"One." Activation granted!
>
>And so, all the worries from the pre-XP days were (mostly) unwarranted
>(not counting the crass and blatant privacy issue). Of course, that also
>means that the entire activation scheme was a complete and utter waste of
>time too. The only time I've seen XP keys not activate is when one gets
>"blacklisted" by MS, probably either because it has been determined to be
>a pirated key (so sorry for the person who actually DID buy that key,
>have fun shelling out for a new license, buddy), or because it was never
>a valid key in the first place but satisfied XP's mathematic algorithm
>for activation keys, if that's even possible. This happens so rarely that
>it is barely even worth mentioning.
>
>I expect FSX's scheme works in a similarly retarded fashion. As soon as I
>heard FSX was going to go the Windows'esque activation route, I knew I
>would never buy another copy of MSFS again.
>
>Matt
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