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Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet (www.neowin.net)

submitted 1 week ago by PapaSkwat@lemmings.world to c/technology@lemmy.today

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/44849946

Now when trying to activate the OS by attempting to call the phone number for Microsoft Product Activation, an automated voice response says the following: "Support for product activation has moved online.

Linux is this way, guys.

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[–] paper_moon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I had one up until about 2003 probably. We were out in the country and couldn't get cable or dsl. I remember trying out linux and fighting with the wintel modem and gpu drivers, writing down the errors, rebooting the machine back into windows, going online and researching the errors online, writing down the commands I needed to use to fix it, or downloading the rpm packages (red hat or fedora can't remember which) I might have needed, rebooting, trying again in linux, failing, etc.

When i finally tried ubuntu on my laptop around 2007, it was amazing that the WiFi and graphics "just worked".