EARLIER this year we wrote about Microsoft's VLSC (Volume Licensing Service Center) being down for a long, long time [1, 2, 3]. Well, guess what? It's down again. [via]
Microsoft’s volume licensing site once again went titsup on Friday and was out for several days with very little explanation from the software vendor about what had gone wrong.
Frustrated customers were simply greeted with a page that read:
“The Volume Licensing Service Center is currently unavailable because we are making essential site improvements. We appreciate your patience and apologise for any inconvenience.”
This may not have happened if Ubuntu (Linux) was installed on those PC's. Ubuntu is free, safe, secure, stable, customizable, great community support, efficient with resources and does not need an anti-virus. I have been using it for years and am very happy with it.
Comments
Needs Sunlight
2010-08-17 20:17:07
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2010-08-17 20:27:49
Needs Sunlight
2010-08-18 06:46:58
publishspin a report about it. I suppose like the other M$ partners they're trying to pretend that they're an asset or that they are experts on using, deploying, and developing Free and Open Source because they were the cause of the recent boom.In the old days before the wide availability of taxis, limos and such, those kinds got dipped in tar, rolled in feathers, hog-tied and run out to the edge of town on a rail. I suppose now the best we can hope for is that DHS or some other agency sees what they are doing to national economy and safety and puts some of the leaders away for a long time.