was the last great OS without the "activation virus". XP wasn't too bad on activation fails after SP2, but I've been playing with Win10 in a VirtualBox virtual drive and it's activation fails at almost any and all changes. The least thing kills the activation, such as moving the virtual drive file (VDI) on the same hard drive on one partition to another larger partition, which seem to set a new UUID and down it goes again. When you get it activated again, even though not running it also in the previous location on the same computer, same drive, it then fails later due to "being installed on more than one computer".
Been testing it out for wife and daughter during Preview Builds and was reasonably impressed with it over Win8, but not so much as Win7. If the "Microsoft activation virus" is that much more prevalent and potent now than ever before, rather than deal with it on their computers, I'll have the wife stay on Windows 7, and the daughter can upgrade from Windows XP to Linux Zorin instead, or Mint Cinnamon.
I'm not going to be a shill for Microsoft's new OS in the Windows 10 forum anymore. Tired of hassling with it.
I can go to the microsoft account and see it listing the same computer I have it on, with the same name, 5 times! Say what?!!
Nope, not advising anyone from this point on to move to it.
I can respect Microsoft wanting to protect their OS from unauthorized use, but hopefully in future they will find another way than crippling their system with the "activation virus" (because it acts like one) and quit treating everyone like a criminal.
Anyway, for myself, I'm staying with Mint Linux for now, which is far easier to use than windows 10, and a whole lot more stable without worrying if the next thing you do will cause activation be required again, and maybe fail, again.
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