From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Adam > wrote:
> Rich Gauszka wrote:
>> The Microsoft people that run that forum also love to use their editing
>> power to alter the meaning of topic headings.  I've had the word 'trojan'
>> magically disappear from some of my posts. They also appear to be in denial.
>> Dang those evil complainers on the forum who skew their happiness.
>>
>>
http://forums.microsoft.com/Genuine/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=510552&SiteID=25
>> Where are these numbers and estimations based off of? The forum is very
>> skewed result of only users having Validation issues.
>>
> Good Lord who is "Dan at IT associates"?
> Is contracted to spin on MS's behalf? Kinda "Astro-dan"?
>
> Adam
Oh & BTW he's obviously full of shit coz looky here...

He says (in the above thread):

"Now approach this with an open mind....."

mmmmmkkkay...such as one which swallows the party line & tires to munch
it's way up to the fishing rod? I think that's a "gullible mind"
& not an "open" one.

& then:

"MS begins a program that deploys checking software onto each
installation of Windows.  The software is designed to check whether the
installed copy of XP is genuine.  If it's not, that installation of XP is
denied manually applied updates at Windows Update, and some nice-to-have
downloads at microsoft.com.  The installation of XP still gets security
related critical updates pushed to it if Automatic Updates is set.  Nothing
about the actual function of the computer or the Operating System is
affected.

MS's reasoning is, Let's reward people for using a genuine copy of our
product.  The flipside of that is, let's withhold nice-to-have stuff if the
copy is not genuine."

odd to compare that with:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=84

"He told me that "in the fall, having the latest WGA will become
mandatory and if its not installed, Windows will give a 30 day warning and
when the 30 days is up and WGA isn't installed, Windows will stop working,
so you might as well install WGA now." "

Hummm....

Adam

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