Re: WM 5.0 activation
Brad Leyden
If you chose one that wasn't spam or Warez 4 sale you would have a 90%
chance stumbling into a person with the same problem as you. The general
idea is to leave a note for Christine - Microsoft Reader Team with a valid
e-mail (spammers love that too) and your make and model (as you already
have) and they will email you a file that should have been installed by your
supplier (HP).
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"Rich" <Ri...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have 2 HP IPAQ 2495 s. I can't activate Microsoft Reader. It keeps
>saying
> I have an older device that doesn't allow activation. These are brand new
> with Windows Mobile 5.0
Christine
Brad is correct. Although just to get around the spammers you can send me
an offline email at msread...@comcast.net with the same info Brad lists
below and I will provide you with the file.
Sincerely,
Christine - Microsoft Reader Team
"Brad Leyden" <bradl...@spammail.com> wrote in message
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Christine
As I have mentioned before Microsoft does not own these files and since we
do not own them we do not have the rights to redistribute them via our
website.
The good news is that many of the OEM's are now starting to provide fixes on
their websites. HP is one of the first have this online. You can find
their fix here:
http://search.hp.com/query.html?cc=us&lang=en&qt=oeminfo.xml&la=en
Sincerely,
Christine - Microsoft Reader Team
"_Lurker" <ho...@butterfly.net> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:46:04 -0700, "Christine"
> <msread...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>>Rich:
>>
>>Brad is correct. Although just to get around the spammers you can send me
>>an offline email at msread...@comcast.net with the same info Brad lists
>>below and I will provide you with the file.
>>
>>Sincerely,
>>Christine - Microsoft Reader Team
>>
>>"Brad Leyden" <bradl...@spammail.com> wrote in message
>
>>>The general
>>> idea is to leave a note for Christine - Microsoft Reader Team with a
>>> valid
>>> e-mail (spammers love that too) and your make and model (as you already
>>> have) and they will email you a file that should have been installed by
>>> your supplier (HP).
>
> How about a supplement to the page where we download MSreader? It
> could let folks can pick their make/model and snag the file they need.
>
> Seems a lot less work for MS than mailing them out one by one. There
> has to be a whole bunch of people that are unhappy with your product
> that will never find their way here to find out it's fixable.
>
Edgar
news:Xns9802F1F36D10Ace...@213.75.12.164...
> "Christine" <msread...@comcast.net> wrote in
> microsoft.public.pocketpc.ebooks:
>
>> Lurker:
>>
>> As I have mentioned before Microsoft does not own these files and since
>> we do not own them we do not have the rights to redistribute them via
>> our website.
>>
>> The good news is that many of the OEM's are now starting to provide
>> fixes on their websites. HP is one of the first have this online. You
>> can find their fix here:
>> http://search.hp.com/query.html?cc=us&lang=en&qt=oeminfo.xml&la=en
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Christine - Microsoft Reader Team
>
>
>
> at the content of this newsgroup alone, over 90% of all questions are
> about failing "activation" on almost every device on the market, and
> people struggling to have access to ebooks - products they bought and own
> but can't use.
>
> If I were the developer of a Reader that needed constant and public
> begging for files to get the software working in the first place, adding
> that "we don't own those files" while it concerns your own software, I
> would be seriously starting to have my doubts.
>
> In a sort of masochistic way I return each day to this newsgroup to
> witness the continuation of a stream of new devices not working without
> explicit support. It's kind of addictive to see that even people in
> Microsoft itself seems to think this is a fact of life.
>
> Not to mention the activation scheme itself. I have an old desktop, an old
> laptop and one PDA without any hardware changes at all, and seemingly six
> "activations" (as if the book is owned by my computers, and not by me) and
> already I've run into microsoft servers running on microsoft software
> catering microsoft OS operated devices not able to activate, or indicating
> too many activations on one and the same "passport", In the worderful
> world of Microsoft three is six and using software is endless tampering to
> get it along and begging to use what you paid for.
>
> But maybe I'm mistaken about having doubts and quite deluded, and I might
> be quite alone in this weird world of DRM, seemingly developed to cater
> freeloaders and their cracked software and files, and to punish regular
> buyers with hours of begging and frustrations. It's a wonderful market
> approach indeed.
>
>
> --
> CeeBee
>
> *** The Cookie Has Spoken ***
Which is why DRM must die :).
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Laura Rooke (MVP - Mobile Devices)
MSReaderGirl
Actually, Dell is one of the few manufacturers who do not have the missing
file issue. It is likely that you are running into another problem. Please
email me at msread...@comcast.net with a list of the issues that you are
seeing and I will see if I can help get your device running with the Reader
again.
Thanks!
Christine - Microsoft Reader Team
"_Lurker" <inv...@bogus.net> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 12:39:28 -0700, "Christine"
> <msread...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>>Lurker:
>>
>>As I have mentioned before Microsoft does not own these files and since we
>>do not own them we do not have the rights to redistribute them via our
>>website.
>>
>>The good news is that many of the OEM's are now starting to provide fixes
>>on
>>their websites. HP is one of the first have this online. You can find
>>their fix here:
>>http://search.hp.com/query.html?cc=us&lang=en&qt=oeminfo.xml&la=en
>>
>>Sincerely,
>>Christine - Microsoft Reader Team
>>
>>"_Lurker" <ho...@butterfly.net> wrote in message
>>news:5cgla2tqns5vbpmb6...@4ax.com...
>
>>> How about a supplement to the page where we download MSreader? It
>>> could let folks can pick their make/model and snag the file they need.
>>>
>>> Seems a lot less work for MS than mailing them out one by one. There
>>> has to be a whole bunch of people that are unhappy with your product
>>> that will never find their way here to find out it's fixable.
>
> OK. I can certainly understand the legal issue. Perhaps an MS page
> with links to the appropriate page on the various hardware makers
> sites. If that's a possible thing.
>
> Most of these sites are complex to navigate to find the one thing that
> one is looking for. When it may not even exist. But I would hope
> knowing these things - specific to PPC - would be part of MSs bread
> and butter. There is a good chance you folks get involved in things
> that the causal browser won't find out about without a nudge in the
> right direction.
>
> In my own case, a Dell X30i, I'm out in the cold. Dell no longer
> sells PPCs of any model and they have pretty much given up mentioning
> that they ever did. It's a great product. I realize new hardware
> will come along and sooner or later old hardware can't be brought up
> to run new software versions, but we are just flat out in the cold.
> Can't even buy a new one. I guess that's what makes some of us hope
> MS will be able to step up, just a bit, to support the software after
> the hardware maker is gone. It's not your job, of course, but you are
> the only (wo)man left standing.
>
> Anyway, thanks for your reply and thanks to the people who pay you for
> giving you the time to help us out here.
Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]
all learn.
TIA,
Beverly Howard [Microsoft MVP-Mobile Devices]