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to: /m
from: Robert Comer
date: 2006-07-02 15:35:32
subject: Re: Microsoft denies WGA kill switch in Windows XP

From: "Robert Comer" 

Yeah, Gary's message clued me into that.  True, it's not a technical lie,
but  lie by omission...

--
Bob Comer


"/m"  wrote in message
news:8svfa2pmdjtratkv1ekpb9691v7o3q6ntt{at}4ax.com...
> 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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