From: "Robert Comer" 

> "No, Microsoft antipiracy technologies cannot and will not turn off your
> computer,"

That's an outright lie -- if the activation part of XP gets scrambled now,
it totally disables logging into Windows.

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Bob Comer


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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxon
omyName=software&articleId=9001559&taxonomyId=18
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> ===
> Microsoft Corp. today denied speculation that it plans to cripple copies
> of Windows XP for users who refuse to install its controversial
> antipiracy tool, Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA).
>
> But the software company confirmed that for its upcoming Windows Vista
> operating system, companies will be required to activate their software
> differently than they do today in order to prevent the leakage of volume
> licenses that are the source of most Windows piracy.
>
> A ZDNet.com blogger reported earlier in the week on a conversation
> between a Windows user and a Microsoft support staffer, who allegedly
> admitted that users who refused to install the WGA update would be given
> 30 days before their copies of Windows would stop working.
>
> ZDNet.com said that Microsoft refused to deny the report at the time.
> But later, Microsoft appeared to sing a different tune.
>
> "No, Microsoft antipiracy technologies cannot and will not turn off your
> computer," said a spokeswoman with Waggener Edstrom, Microsoft's public
> relations firm. "The game is changing for counterfeiters. In Windows
> Vista, we are making it notably harder and less appealing to use
> counterfeit software, and we will work to make that a consistent
> experience with older versions of Windows as well."...
> ===
>
>
> Well, it looks like I may have to stop installing the security updates
> for my copies of Windows 2000.  I don't want a "consistent experience"
> with those poor people who are being rectumized by Microsoft's Windows
> Genuine Disadvantage.
>
> Odd, though, that Microsoft chose the PR firm to release this
> information, instead of a more official executive who would know
> Microsoft's real plans.  A spokeswoman with Waggener Edstrom would only
> know what she was told to say.
>
> I don't think we've seen the extent of the rectumization of Microsoft's
> Windows customers^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H victims, there's more to come....
>
> /m

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