Well, let me offer this: One of the very first lessons I learned as a child was, the difference between what one thinks and what one knows is too often gigantic. As I originally said, Microsoft confirmed the numbers on the side of the computer as being ingenuine, pirated. This, if you are not aware, implies most definitely that I called them. But of the things you offered, this gave me a real laugh: "Your assumption that Best Buy sold you a computer with a pirated Operating system is most likely flawed.
Best buy didn't make the computer nor load the OS on it. Why would they take responsibility when they have none?" Assumption? Are you just plain stupid? Best Buy sold me the computer! Why on earth would I seek redress from the manufacturer? Moreover, as long as you persist in wearing blinders that prohibit you from seeing or understanding the issue and instead projecting your bias onto me, it is impossible to take anything that you proffer seriously. If you had read my original complaint you would certainly have gained from those words the FACT that my first response was to call Microsoft, which answers your more than lame suggestion to call the phone activation system. Microsoft itself inspected the number set and declared them pirated. You people, all of you who place that disclaimer at the bottom of your messages have exactly the same problem: You hear only what you want to hear and deny anything that is counter to that. The responsible party here is Best Buy. They sold me the computer, not HP. If you take just one moment to look at the pages of their catalogue you may notice, though I have my own doubts about this, that Best Buy explicitly states that the operating system is Microsoft Home Premium. They don't say a pirated version of this. Wake up!
