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We did file a lawsuit against them, and it was thrown out, they filed a motion to squash it and they won pretty fast

they quickly reacted with a suprise software license audit of our company after that..... yay us...

Big companies have too much power sometimes

We did file a lawsuit against them, and it was thrown out, they filed a motion to squash it and they won pretty fast

they quickly reacted with a suprise software license audit of our company after that..... yay us...

Sounds like fun. Let's all do that and get audited. /s

Sounds like fun. Let's all do that and get audited. /s

yeah... the audit was well tons of fun.... end up finding out your license supplier screwed you over also... we had about half a million dollars in software licenses, turned out even after "validating" them when we bought them from our vendor through multiple sources, we still wern't licensed correctly according to MS licenseing... and the "settlement" cost us another quarter of a million... we had the high end systems and operations management software, our vendor sold us all the client licenses and servers and even "confirmed" with MS licenseing we had all we needed... after the audit we found out they didn't sell us the "correct" piece of paper..... err I mean licenses... thankfully the vendor covered the cost since it was their error and their license agent's error.... but MS licenseing is the most complex and utterly impossible thing to understand sometimes

I contacted corporate and they transferred me else where. Talked to a lady named "Wendy, who was on the East Coast and spoke excellent English, with a slight accent, who was very helpful and we got squared away. I dropped my MSDN sub and went with a TechNet Pro with media sub, which the lady said would be a much better choice for us and refunded 100$ back to our CC.

I am currently running Win7, but am now dling Win8 Pro. So win win I guess.

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