Today, Dan asks:

Has Microsoft finally gone too far? I am seeing multitudes if not hundreds of complaints about activation in Vista, FSX, and even Server 2008. If activation is broken, why don’t they fix it?

On a related, personal, note my computer has quit updating WGA. I went to MS website and they have the most convoluted, obscure method of fixing it that I have ever heard involving editing the registry and using the repair console to change the attributes to a file and then rename it. Bah! Humbug! Its obviously an MS problem, let them fix it. Of course I will probably have to pick up SP3 from another source, but so be it. Sorry for the rant. 

Being as I have family that happen to work for them in a key dept not Windows related, I try to watch what I say regardless of my own feelings. It is no secret that I am NOT a fan of Windows. Yet despite this, there are select Microsoft products that I still enjoy to this day.

As for your activation being broken, I am sure that they are under plenty of pressure to do just that. But because of the perpetual management crisis going on these days, it may be a few weeks, this I am not completely sure.

I totally understand your frustration with regard to the worm-hole approach to fixing issues, but if this is the OS you are needing to use, you may be out of luck - you might just have to do the fixing yourself despite you not being to blame. In many ways, this is just how it works in computers today at some level.

And finally, regarding SP3, I would definitely not plan on being an early adopter to any of these types of updates. Let everyone else play guinea pig and wait until the dust settles.

Do you have an IT-related question? Perhaps you are just burnt out on writing on the walls with crayons? Whatever the comments may be, drop me a line, and you too can “Just Ask Matt!”