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Microsoft showing its true colors ... Again
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 11:42 -0800
___ Sent with SnapperMail www.snappermail.com ...... Forwarded Message ....... From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 11:21:33 -0400 Subj: Microsoft showing its true colors ... Again According to this BBC article, "SP2 will check the product ID number for the copy of XP in use on a PC and will not let itself be installed if that software is a version that has been widely pirated." (The 20 most pirated numbers.) For a little while, I thought Microsoft finally was doing a responsible thing by allowing any and all users of WinXP (legitimate or pirated) to install the major security update in XP SP 2. :sighs: But, true to form, the company again decides that its business interests (eg, profits) should never, EVER take a secondary priority to something as important as .... (for example) the good of the Internet. How very typical. Source: Microsoft bars Windows pirates http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3774567.stm -rick Infowarrior.org ------------------------------------- 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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