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echo: nthelp
to: Robert Comer
from: /m
date: 2006-07-02 13:18:06
subject: Re: Microsoft denies WGA kill switch in Windows XP

From: /m 

On Sun, 2 Jul 2006 12:15:42 -0400, "Robert Comer"
 wrote:

>> "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.

However, not being able to log into Microsoft Windows is very different
than turning off the computer.  A distinction that, IMO, was not lost on
those at Microsoft who wrote up the press release.

  /m

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