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more on Microsoft showing its true colors ... Again
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 07:30:11 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh () hserus net> Date: June 5, 2004 8:39:54 PM EDT To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Cc: rforno () infowarrior org Subject: Re: [IP] Microsoft showing its true colors ... Again Dave Farber [05/06/04 11:42 -0800]:
...... Forwarded Message ....... From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>According to this BBC article, "SP2 will check the product ID number for thecopy of XP in use on a PC and will not let itself be installed if thatsoftware is a version that has been widely pirated." (The 20 most piratednumbers.)
You know something? That was the case with XP SP1 as well. srs -- Suresh Ramasubramanian | suresh () hserus net | gpg EDEDEFB9 email sturmbahnfuehrer | lower middle class unix sysadmin ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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