Being the person saddled with sorting out our MSDN licence is not much fun. This morning a pc suddenly decided it needed reactivation - we have 3 licences in use for ultimate and a max of 10 as per our agreement.
But.. we've reached our limit because even though it's not actively installed 10 times, MS thinks it still is - and we have no way of decrementing the count for defunct installs. Or am I wrong?
The chap at MS didn't know of a way and simply will give us another key but.. he can't because their activation servers are knackered. So it'll be two days before I can get back into the machine legally. Brilliant.
Meanwhile a colleague wanting to get onto the machine rings the indian reactivation hotline, answers a few questions and they reactivate it. Of course this - to the letter of the law - isn't legal. But at least we can use the machine in the interim.
Makes you want to turn to piracy really - it appears to be a lot easier than being a legit customer. Plus you get to wear an eye patch.