Hi Darin,
Allow me to make an attempt at "debugging" RonPfister's code:
I think Ron went to a Microsoft event for in Overland Park, KS. Sounds like Ron got a SWAG copy of Windows 7 Ultimate (Not for resale) for attending the event. Also sounds like event personnel asked if anyone needed more than one copy, and Ron
snagged more SWAG copies.
Apparently, one or more of the gift copies of W7U did not have a product key label inside the package. Ron's thinking maybe this is a nongenuine copy and is of course puzzled because he got it at an official Microsoft event.
If that's correct, I can see two possibilities:
1. Some sort of manufacturing SNAFU that caused the product key sticker to not be put into the package.
2. Instead of a product key on a label, one of the SWAG copies of W7U instead has an alternate form of fulfllment, such as directions to go to a website to enter a code (perhaps one given out by the event staff) which in turn would return a product
key on the screen.
[IME this type of fulfillment has an expiration date before which you have to go to the site and get the key, or else...:-( I happen to have a copy of Vista Ult that I got at an event that has that type of product key fulfillment....but
I sort of misplaced it for a while and by the time i found it the offer had expired.]
