From: Mike N. 

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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