From: doug.bryce{at}sympatico.ca (Doug Bryce)

On Tue, 13 May 2003 22:56:50 -0500, Gene McAloon
 wrote:

>I haven't heard of XP SP1 failing to install if the copy of XP on the computer
>was pirated. I suspect that story is apocryphal. I follow this stuff fairly
>closely and have seen no mention of it on either CS forums or various MS
>newsgroups. Which is not to say it didn't happen, but I seriously doubt it.
>
>Gene
>

I saw a lot of mention of it in winxp.general (I think that's the right
group name) on msnews.microsoft.com  when I was reading it at my last
employer.  Apparently SP1 was coded to look for a range of license keys
that were know to have 'leaked'  (keys for the so-called
'corporate' version.....sorry, I don't recall the offical name of it
anymore).

doug

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