I wonder if that’s the problem I was having last night. I have a windows 7 vm that I recently installed that normally doesn’t have internet access allowed on it, that was bugging me about activation, and it kept bitching when I tried to activate it. It seems like it was indicating the product key and version mismatched (i.e., “the key is not right for Win7 pro” or some garbage like that).
Ended up rebuilding and going through the reboot two-step today while I was working. Every once in a while I’d check to see if it was ready for the next reboot. Windows update is astoundingly primitive.
It's amazing what one can get away with, when one has a solid 90% market share.
User complaints about clunkiness? "Here's a quarter..."