I bought windows 8 when they had it for 60 bucks. put it on a maching that I built last year. I like it so much that I did a new build for it. I went to activate by disconnecting the internet which bring the phone option. It allow me to do it. I was going to explain that I did a pc upgrade, but they never asked. I back up both pc's with the Windows backup tool that they have purposely hidden
Long-time no see, Eric.
Yeah, they don't always have you connect to a person; it's only happened to me once, and that was when I was working in a PC shop, and somebody gave me a pirated key to try and use to reinstall their XP.