Hi all,
All these big evil corporations like MS and Apple etc get alot of flack so I thought I'd share a good experience for a change! We're all quick to moan when things go wrong so I have to say credit where it's due on this occasion.
Basically I was rebuilding a laptop for a mate after his hard-disc died. Persuaded him to cough up extra for an SSD to replace it
Anyway all was going well until I got to the part where I had to put the CD key in. So flipped over the lappie as of course the COA is stuck there but uh oh... Due to excessive knee rubbing on the sticker from all that surfing in front of the telly some of the figures had rubbed off so the key was unreadable
I spent about 2 hours trying to guess the illegible letters with what they possibly could be (e.g. what looked like a Q could be an 0 etc). After much swearing I gave up. Decided to give MS a ring for a laugh and was expecting to get a pretty robotic scripted response from the support line.
But no! Spoke to a very helpful chap and explained the predicament. He asked me to confirm the characters of the key I could actually read to establish I wasn't some evil pirateand then, with no argument, generated a brand new product key for me over the phone and waited while I typed it in to activate! Whole thing took less than 5 minutes. Felt like a right tit wasting time trying to guess the faded characters and genuinely thought we'd end up coughing up 79 quid for a new licence.
Very impressed, don't know the name of the guy but I thank him whoever he was
Mate is well chuffed with the speed now aswell, he owes me a few beers!


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and then, with no argument, generated a brand new product key for me over the phone and waited while I typed it in to activate! Whole thing took less than 5 minutes. Felt like a right tit wasting time trying to guess the faded characters and genuinely thought we'd end up coughing up 79 quid for a new licence.
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