Tonight I gave Parallels a try, in place of Apple’s Boot Camp, and ran smack dab into Windows Activation thinking it has been activated too many times.

This on the same machine that was running the same copy under Boot Camp.

What a royal pain in the arse!

Now I get to chew up more toll-free minutes on Microsoft’s activation support line. At the pace I go through Macs, I’ll probably cost Microsoft more than they made selling me the retail copy in about 12 months.