#windows-activation

#windows-activation

InPost, for the uninitiated, is a logistics company headquartered in Poland. It's most famous for the banks of lockers that have sprung up around the UK in recent years (more than 14,000 of them, according to the company). The process is simple: scan a code, and a locker door opens. Either pop in a parcel, or collect one. It beats queuing at a post office to do parcel-related stuff, where the information screens might have had their own visit from the bork fairy.

However, the interactive screens are running Windows, and Windows is doing what Windows does best: displaying an awkward message. We suspect it's what the artist, famed for subversive and satirical artwork cropping up in the most unexpected of places, would have wanted. Windows complaining about activation can occur if there are licensing issues, or if there has been a hardware change that is enough to send Microsoft's finest into a cycle of despair.