From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Wouldn't a EULA from a windows update patch set aside your initial license?

"Robert G Lewis"  wrote in message
news:44a28c46{at}w3.nls.net...
>I don't see MS trying a kill switch with XP. At least not across the board.
>Too much potential for lawsuits. I'd wonder if criminal charges might not
>apply even.
>
> Nothing in the license ( that I'm aware of) from when I bought XP. so if
> they killed it I'd look at it the same as I would a Hacker killing my PC.
>
>
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:44a272d6{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Any excuse for their 'kill switch'
>>
>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=84
>>
>> Guess what? WGA might be on the verge of getting even messier. In fact,
>> one report claims WGA is about to become a Windows "kill
switch" - and
>> when I asked Microsoft for an on-the-record response, they refused to
>> deny it.
>>
>>
>> "Mike N."  wrote in message
>> news:n6s4a2tckt2busejrr8e7vj2fcatdboi5n{at}4ax.com...
>>>
>>>
>>>
http://news.com.com/Putting+privacy+first+at+Microsoft/2008-1029_3-6088719.
html?tag=nefd.lede
>>>
>>> "It's important to go back to the fundamental goal of
Windows Genuine
>>> Advantage and the risk of pirated software. A lot of people believe that
>>> it
>>> might be about the revenue, but in actual fact, it is about the security
>>> and privacy of the users. Some research that we've done finds that the
>>> incidence of malware (malicious software) is a lot higher on pirated
>>> software, so we really are trying to make sure that users really have
>>> the
>>> opportunity to protect themselves."
>>>
>>>    Is he saying that using a pirated key causes Windows to be vulnerable
>>> to spyware and adware infections?
>>
>>
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