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No Colin as usual I just jumped in boots and all not knowing I already had the machine on their books as it were - so I swapped in a new SSD put that OEM on it and it worked fine. I then took out that drive and converted the swapped out drive back into the machine with 7 on it and tried to install 10 from the OEM DVD because I was thinking at least the key would be in the machine ?somewhere . Now it all went pear shaped as you can imagine and I now know.Im confused - what were you trying to do? Install W10 OEM to a drive, then remove the drive and put it into an existing W7 system??????
So being the smart idiot I am I reclaimed the drive back to 7 and then installed 10 as dual boot using the free ISO and everything was fine in the world. This left me with a $230 OEM that I thought would be nice to try and create a dual boot on the Ivy desktop which is running Home Premium only to find that after preparing the drive with a partition for the 10 it just wanted to install 10 over the top of everything.
So me in my pea sized brain thought ok lets install 10 onto the Ivy and then install the 7 Home Premium onto the allotted partition I had made for it. But being (I think I am anyway) an honest person contacted Microsoft and told what I had done and had in mind - in effect made a horrible mistake, in hindsight now - naively thinking they would say ok just this once and then I would have tried setting Ivy up dual boot because on the small laptop I find it very handy.
All well and good - OH BLOODY NO as it turned out - because somewhere in a far off third world country some obnoxious ratbag knocked me back in no uncertain, uncompromising and in my book completely unsympathetic manner. Now I am as I think you might know work and have worked as an RN for many years and I would no more think of treating anyone however rude or irritating - like I was than I would fly to the moon so experiencing that was for me an extremely unpleasant and uncalled for experience.
What really upset me was how I was not allowed to use that OEM on the Ivy machine even after explaining what I had done as above - it was not as if I had tried to install it on any other machine it their bloody minded attitude I was given the impression that if you bought it then you should know about the rules and regulations.
But I am as you know am no expert on much at all let alone have a degree or doctorate in decyphering that licencing agreement and am sure there are many like me who are quite trusting in Microsoft that that crap is meant for students of corporate law, and like me have given up reading past the first few paragraphs of their hell sent licencing rules. I am just your very average end user and would like to think that Microsoft would be a little more flexible with us plebs.
Furthermore what got right up my nose was that in the past I have asked to use an OEM on a new board and back those early days they bent over backwards to help one out as long as you didn't constantly keep doing it. It is that very devil may care attitude they have now regarding Windows if you mess up on something like I have - and keep openly advertising it as the best thing since sliced bread and everything else is rubbish and shove their new system down your throat whether you like it or not.
In my simple mind what they are dictating now is or does not make very good marketing sense because after handing them $240 for that OEM and have this happen to me does NOT inspire me to spend much more than I absolutely have to with their products which in any case seem to appear day to day to be getting away from the enjoyment of computing (one of the few small activities I have these days) and more into grabbing every cent they can by introducing apps that are to me banal and unwanted.
I for one was really annoyed when I first installed 10 found the Start page littered with idiotic apps like Candy Crush games and/or some wretched thing or other and stuff I would not use in a lifetime, and we have grumbled about bloatware on manufactured machines for years now and here they are at it themselves!!
I am not fishing for any sympathy just relating what I experienced on that day because I have to accept what they have done to me and suspect that may will not give a rats toot about this sad and sorry affair. I shall just put it down to a bad experience and in future it may be an idea to run it past the forum before I do such things. However it does leave such a bad taste in one's mouth.
If the Linux based systems were not so alien to me after using M$ all these years then I would probably be tempted - no inclined to just go with those systems - I have tried but they certainly do's seem to me to be as easy to work as Windows - unfortunately.
Having been a member of these forums for long while now that going over to a Linux based system on my machines would be such a shame no more so than having made so many friends here in no just the 10 forum but more so in the 7 forum as many I greatly respect and for most part rely on to help me out .
Sorry for the rant but I am so disappointed with how things are now moving with computing and the technology associated with it.
John
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(or anyone else's thoughts either as long as they make the money out of the unwary and gullible - at least that is how it appears to me. Ethical not to my way of thinking morally well again that would be up to what one thinks of as moral.
