VMWare made me Pirate software!

Posted At : March 17, 2009 5:27 PM | Posted By : Gary Gilbert
Related Categories: Software,vmware

Before my laptop died I used the converter software from VMWare to convert it to a virtual machine thereby not losing all of my installed programs (most of which I actually paid for). Once I booted up the virtual machine I had to enter in the Windows serial number that's generally on the tag they slap on the bottom of the laptop. Not a big deal I thought.

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Even if the serial says "too many activations", you can phone up the MS activation line and they'll reset it for you once you've explained about the VM.

I had the same issue when going from Parallels to VMware...

# Posted By Seb Duggan | 3/17/09 6:53 PM

Thanks for the info Seb. I honestly didn't think of calling customer service.

# Posted By Gary | 3/17/09 7:52 PM

And for the most part the phone call is all automated. It takes forever but I've done this lots of time when updating hardware and never had an issue.

# Posted By Jim Priest | 3/17/09 1:32 AM

I'll second the recs to call MS software activation. I've rebuilt VMs several times and had to reactivate my copy of Vista fairly often. I got a real person (a lady in India) and she was very helpful and the process was pretty painless.

# Posted By Sean Corfield | 3/18/09 9:34 AM

"Even if the serial says "too many activations", you can phone up the MS activation line..."

Yes I love how m$ treats their customers like they are criminals until you prove them wrong. Back in my last windows days I was having to re-install xp about once a month and had to make about 50 of these calls and not one time was I ever treated like a valuable customer but rather a software pirate.

That was one of my final straws with them that sent me to a mac and god frickin bless them for that!

# Posted By dave | 3/21/09 12:18 PM

I just had a very interesting experience with HP customer support for my new Mini 1000.

# Posted By Microsoft Israel Labs | 2/2/10 12:50 PM

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