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    • scottalanmiller

      City of Munich Moving to Closed Source Software
      IT Discussion • linux windows libreoffice closed source software open source munich • • scottalanmiller

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      travisdh1

      @Obsolesce said in City of Munich Moving to Closed Source Software:

      It looks like the whole issue was due to their use of some weird distro years ago.

      That article technically doesn't say why they need Windows now, so for all I know they have some new weird requirements I don't know about, but assuming they don't, I think the decision to go to Windows is a horrible idea. They'd be much better off going to Ubuntu instead.

      Yes I upvoted a post about how Ubuntu would be better than an alternative. Please no heart attacks people.

    • scottalanmiller

      The Hidden Cost of Licensing Windows Server - Activation
      IT Discussion • microsoft microsoft licensing closed source software software licensing windows windows server volume licensing • • scottalanmiller

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      scottalanmiller

      @pmoncho said in The Hidden Cost of Licensing Windows Server - Activation:

      @scottalanmiller said in The Hidden Cost of Licensing Windows Server - Activation:

      Just looking at this with a customer that just put in a new Windows 2019 server. The machine was purchased with a volume license agreement for Server 2019 Standard. Everything should be super easy, in theory. Problem is, license key from the volume license center doesn't work. We spend a bit of time trying to get this to apply, but no luck.

      I have run into a similar situation this morning and not being able activate the VLSC liscense.

      Before I decided to call MS and getting frustrated, I was able to activate from an elevated command line.
      cscript c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs /ipk <product key>

      Throwing this out here in case someone comes along this post at a later time.

      I've heard that that often works. We had tried that in our case and it had failed.

    • mlnews

      Microsoft Internal Vulnerability System Breached in 2013, Went Unreported
      News • microsoft windows security breach closed source software software • • mlnews

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      dbeato

      Nowadays they wouldn't get away on this. Maybe Troy Hunt will say something 😛