From: "Robert Comer" 

>They forget "small shop
> with decent firewall policy" has no default connectivity either.

That's my shop...

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Bob Comer





"Mike N."  wrote in message
news:b1ikp2h9n8lqb9sdfv8pjbisah8c4ligqf{at}4ax.com...
> On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 23:11:43 -0500, "Robert Comer"
> 
> wrote:
>
>>I really don't expect any degrade in this case, at least I hope not --
>>there's a lot of computers that don't have internet access (for security
>>reasons).  I can't think that Microsoft would make that much of a mistake.
>
>  The thinking was undoubtably, "big corp whose firewall denies all by
> default will use an internal activation server".    They forget "small
> shop
> with decent firewall policy" has no default connectivity either.   I can
> think of several of these that would fall afoul of Geo's test and degrade
> to 19" LCD monitor that just displays a spinning doughnut.

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