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Long story short, I've been put through Call-Center yo-yo, different companies blaming each other and refusing to help me, not to mention Sony's inherent evilness showing through as well (I still haven't forgiven Sony for the rootkit fiasco, the enhanced DRM on Bluray, nor their support for staggered releases). Here's the overview: 1. Sony Vaio arrives, purchased from PC World because they had a Government-sponsored discount on (the only reason I'd shop there, or buy a Sony Computer) 2. Sony Vaio is running a massive assortment of bundleware I wouldn't touch with a 10-foot bargepole (Office 2003 Trial?
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Norton Internet Security? In addition, it will not let me join my house's AD domain (v. Important!) 3. Sony Vaio does not come with recovery nor re-installation media, instead the computer tells me to burn my own recovery DVDs (wtf!) 4. Since the laptop came with a license for Media Center Edition 2005, I downloaded an ISO for it via BitTorrent and it installs fine, albiet with an already leaked-key. It rejects the product-key on the bottom of my Vaio. Newly-formatted and re-installed Vaio now cannot activate since I installed it with a leaked key Microsoft is aware of.
I contact both Microsoft and Sony in search of a replacement product-key that works. Microsoft issued me with two keys, neither of which work because they're OEM keys and the OS I'm installing it from was probably taken from MSDN. Microsoft refuses to help me because the license was provided by Sony 7. Sony refuses to help me because the ISO I'm attempting to activate was from MSDN and requires a Microsoft product-key (as I said, Microsoft did issue me with some product-keys, but both were for OEM editions and not the MSDN version) 8. Growing tired with this mess, I asked Sony how much they want for Recovery discs (bear in mind these are not re-installation CDs, but instead put back in all the horrible bundleware I didn't want in the first place). They told me £60.
This is daylight robbery; I already have a license for XP MCE2005, why do I need to shell out £60 for something that should only cost £20? (At least that's how much Toshiba and Dell charge, and even then I think that's too much) 9. I post my story here, looking for sympathy and support. I suspect this thread will be deleted for critising Sony (much like how Dell deleted threads on their own forums that were critical of themselves as well). Long story short, I've been put through Call-Center yo-yo, different companies blaming each other and refusing to help me, not to mention Sony's inherent evilness showing through as well (I still haven't forgiven Sony for the rootkit fiasco, the enhanced DRM on Bluray, nor their support for staggered releases).