So I'm going to college in a couple of weeks. I just recently bought my laptop and need to get a bunch of needed programs. Well one of them is Microsoft Office, with Word, PowerPoint, Excell, Onenote, ect. Well in order to get it I had to get it off of the Microsoft website under the student option. We decided to get the downloaded version with back-up disks. Well in order to get it for students, I had to go through a verification process. They asked for my windows live and student email. I initially gave them my hotmail windows live and student email. Well I went through that same process about 4 times and it never sent the verification email. Ahhhhhh. I gave it a few day in case it just didn't send, but it never did.
Well now comes today. To maybe cover all my bases, I made a windows live account with my college email hoping that would make it better. Well it didn't. This brings my total of windows live accounts to 4; one for my xbox live, one for my hotmail and Bing rewards, one for my parent account for my xbox live account, it was a bad idea to give my real age to Microsoft 4 years ago, and now one for my college email. I will probably never use the college email again. Well I tried for maybe 5 more times, and it said that I should go to support. I surf around support for a while but find no help.
Well I reread the directions and it said to get the contact number for customer support from the support link. By now I am ready to rip my hair out, and since I'm going bald, it won't grow back. Luckily grabbing my hat didn't harm what hair I have left. We're running low on minutes on our cell and even calling a 800 number might go against them. Luckily my family is still in the stone ages some because we still have a land line. Only problem was that dad was using it, so I had to wait. I should have figured that when I called, I'd get a machine. But hearing the automated voice nearly put me over the edge. Thankfully I didn't have to surf through pages and pages of machine buttons, I got through in 3 pages. And it also didn't take long for someone to pick up on the other end. It took multiple times for them to send me the email with a verification code, and since my name is long, it can take a while for the person on the other end to get all my info one letter at a time.
Well it was sure hard, and took a couple of hours for the thing to download, but now I'm working on installing it.
OK, just installed all of it and have it configured. Oh wow that was stressful. But to all you mac-heads out there, even that fall won't get me a mac. You know that Microsoft office is the standard for all word processing and slide show making and what not. I would need to dual boot and all that crap, get the mac version, and still probably have all that trouble for a higher price and more headaches. Mac sucks, pc's better. Well until next episode, this has been Pokematic signing off and bubye.
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