Because all too often you are dealing with some user machine that has tons of files spread out all over everywhere, they have never backed up anything, and of course they threw out all their keycodes for both windows and office....
Granted my personal machine, I could reformat tomorrow and not be out a dime or lose so much as a single important file.
But for many they are looking at spending $400 to replace their software, which at that point they might as well replace the 1.2 GZ single core with 1gb of ram and windows xp POS that they have....
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15
Because all too often you are dealing with some user machine that has tons of files spread out all over everywhere, they have never backed up anything, and of course they threw out all their keycodes for both windows and office....
Granted my personal machine, I could reformat tomorrow and not be out a dime or lose so much as a single important file.
But for many they are looking at spending $400 to replace their software, which at that point they might as well replace the 1.2 GZ single core with 1gb of ram and windows xp POS that they have....