According to
MSFN.com, Microsoft is "temporarily" out of product keys for Vista Ultimate (5342 and up). They stated that it should be fixed within 72 hours. This was bound to happen, with such a big response to the Vista download, it seems that they should be ready with extras, but these things happen sometimes. Hopefully they can get more keys setup quickly so all those still waiting can try out the RC1 release soon. I still can't believe that Microsoft wants testers to hurry, that is just plain funny after this escapade. The good thing here is that we will never run out of Microsoft news, because they are always up to something, good or bad. Everyone looses their keys at least once right?
Tags: keys, Microsoft, news, osupdates, Vista, Windows
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Subscribe to commentsRacetrackOwnerSep 11th 2006 8:24AM
Going back at least to the beta program for the very first Visual Basic release (the earliest Microsoft beta I partcipated in), they've always done things like urge their testers to hurry up when a deadline is approaching. Large shops sometimes perform complex and methodical testing -- my last employer (before I bailed on IT and went into racing) supported 65,000 internal desktop installs. It helps to remind the techies. Nothing all that funny about it.
peekSep 11th 2006 12:00PM
Here is an idea. Would MS dare open up an old version of Windows, perhaps Win 2000, to the open source community? I want to see what a community of developers could make of inheriting a pre-existing standard (rather than having to try to build one from scratch). It would help bring MS products to developing countries legally…and encourage the sale of other MS software (such as office, etc).
Alternately, with Mac OS coming to life on Intel processors, they should consider offering the OS for free as a MS alternative, and concentrate of selling additional hardware (ipods, etc) and software to a suddenly much wider array of Mac users. The possibilities down that road are amazing - exciting.
I am looking forward to the next two years of OS developments. A critical time for all players and I am waiting for someone to do something extraordinary.