I had a couple of compaq laptops that my wife and I had from from five years ago, and they both had their hard drives fail around a year ago. I had intended to replace the hard drives, but simply got new laptops. Well with Windows 8 coming out, I figured I would put a new hard drive and the windows 8 operating system.
I went to best buy and got a 500 gig hard drive and windows pro 8 for 75 bucks and it installed seamlessly, but when I went to activate it I got an error message that the windows 8 could not be activated because I had a "clean" install. I then called microsoft and was transferred to 8 people over two and a half hours......and I finally just gave up after they remotely controlled my laptop and modified some security features and made some command line changes. I asked them why are the sales people not telling people that windows 8 is an upgrade and cannot be put on a clean hard drive? Nobody at best buy said anything about an upgrade when I asked for windows 8. I had Vista on the laptop, but as is the practice now, I had no recovery disc, so I could not install Vista first.
I am going to do a little "t" on you.....I think windows 8 represents big brother and I am having real concerns about the use of my cell phone as a modem. Let me explain. After I completed the install, it was tedious trying to figure out the changes, so I was playing with the start menu. I have a msn account, and the email interface is seamless. However, they have on the start page something called maps. I am using my cell phone as modem. When I do a check ip it often does not even have me within 50 miles, and often I am in another state. However, maps pinpointed me to the exact location in the building I was in.......this was impossible under any other operating system and even under my prior use of the phone as a modem.
I know people are getting tired of my rants on Romney and the Oligarchy, but as I was talking to Microsoft support people I did not speak to one person who could speak clear English. I sense that the new operating system in combination with cell phone technology, and combined with the technology in cars is allowing each of us to be monitored in real time as to where we are every day and every minute of our day. I anticipate that I will learn more in the next few weeks, but I am not happy.......I think that the tools for control of the American people are in place and the only thing between us and the loss of our freedom is real political acknowledgement of the loss of privacy which is facing the American people and real effort to put checks and balances into our system to protect against abuse.
I went to best buy and got a 500 gig hard drive and windows pro 8 for 75 bucks and it installed seamlessly, but when I went to activate it I got an error message that the windows 8 could not be activated because I had a "clean" install. I then called microsoft and was transferred to 8 people over two and a half hours......and I finally just gave up after they remotely controlled my laptop and modified some security features and made some command line changes. I asked them why are the sales people not telling people that windows 8 is an upgrade and cannot be put on a clean hard drive? Nobody at best buy said anything about an upgrade when I asked for windows 8. I had Vista on the laptop, but as is the practice now, I had no recovery disc, so I could not install Vista first.
I am going to do a little "t" on you.....I think windows 8 represents big brother and I am having real concerns about the use of my cell phone as a modem. Let me explain. After I completed the install, it was tedious trying to figure out the changes, so I was playing with the start menu. I have a msn account, and the email interface is seamless. However, they have on the start page something called maps. I am using my cell phone as modem. When I do a check ip it often does not even have me within 50 miles, and often I am in another state. However, maps pinpointed me to the exact location in the building I was in.......this was impossible under any other operating system and even under my prior use of the phone as a modem.
I know people are getting tired of my rants on Romney and the Oligarchy, but as I was talking to Microsoft support people I did not speak to one person who could speak clear English. I sense that the new operating system in combination with cell phone technology, and combined with the technology in cars is allowing each of us to be monitored in real time as to where we are every day and every minute of our day. I anticipate that I will learn more in the next few weeks, but I am not happy.......I think that the tools for control of the American people are in place and the only thing between us and the loss of our freedom is real political acknowledgement of the loss of privacy which is facing the American people and real effort to put checks and balances into our system to protect against abuse.