This action is only valid for products that are currently installed.
Talk about an error dialogue... No product name given, no action description given, and no reason given for it to be invalid. No hint to proceed to registry at your own risk. No tip to see Technet. What the hell did I spend $250 dollars on Vista for? I got better error messages in XP.
This is indeed a poorly written error that Microsoft performs to hinder and thwart business rivals, like Sun. Why else would it appear?
The action was an INSTALL. Why the convolution in terms, why the vague 'products' identifier... Its 2012 and this is how the end user is treated.. Their programmers must hate end users or MS is just too cheap to support what they deliver and to busy to help end users, in lieu of the hint of sabotaging rivals.
One monopoly is too many in a capitalist economy like America. It was trains once, its PC's now, history does in fact repeat itself. Now everyone in the service industry, just cops a dumb look, and because its okay for MS to charge for support, they do too. And then say, with greedy sympathy, "Oh! but we are sorry," while proceeding to skip all the way to the bank.
I heard they are going to push another OS down our throats, 8. Soon. Ugg. Didn't 7 just appear? Unless a rival steps up to MS, I'll just have to make another useless investment, in a sector very obviously drawing money out of the economy by tipping the scales, providing little, and taking way too much.
Bleh, what was I smoking. Sorry for the melodramatic rant.
Sincerely,
Knutor