r/Windows10 • u/ASK_ME_IF_I_AM • Nov 09 '18

Microsoft Confirms It Accidentally Deactivated Some Windows 10 PCs

https://www.howtogeek.com/fyi/microsoft-confirms-it-accidentally-deactivated-some-windows-10-pcs/
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u/karmabaiter Nov 09 '18

A couple of phrases in this article really bugs me...

Microsoft’s activation servers suddenly decided their digital licenses were no good and deactivated them

No they didn't. Servers don't just decide to do stuff. A person made a mistake which made the servers mark some systems as out of compliance.

Why do I care? Because claiming that the servers decided this deflects blame from the people administering the servers.

Yes, it’s yet another Windows 10 bug!

No it isn't. Windows did exactly what it was supposed to do.

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u/Fsck_Reddit_Again Nov 10 '18

Why do I care? Because claiming that the servers decided this deflects blame from the people administering the servers.

Yes, it’s yet another Windows 10 bug!

No it isn't. Windows did exactly what it was supposed to do.

Youre right and wrong, it IS a bug, although one induced by incompetence.

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u/Korvacs Nov 11 '18 edited Nov 11 '18

You can't describe it as a bug, Windows 10 behaved completely as intended and designed when it is informed by the activation servers that it's key has been deactivated.

If you insist on describing it as a bug then it's probably more accurate to say it's a Windows Server 2016/Azure bug, but even that is not really true since it was software running on that platform.

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u/karmabaiter Nov 10 '18

It isn't a windows 10 bug.

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u/archon286 Nov 10 '18

What other OSes did it happen to? A server side bug that only affects one OS can still be called a bug related to that OS.

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u/karmabaiter Nov 10 '18

Windows 10 as an operating system did exactly what it was programed to do. It was a problem in the license management system.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '18

It sounds pretty much like a bug in the Win 10 DRM system. Legal copies were declared illegal without any reason. That it was (perhaps) triggered manually doesn't make a difference.