From: "Geo" 

If they did then microsoft would simply stick a "deactivation"
command in some patch or service pack to shut down that license.

Geo.

"Mike N."  wrote in message
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> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:56:10 -0500, "Tony Ingenoso"

> wrote:
>
> >Corporate non-activation versions?
>
>   I would have thought the corp versions would have embedded serial
> signature that would trace the leak back to the source.   Of course, it
> would still pay crooks  to set up a fake corp, license 1,000 copies, then
> just quietly disappear with the non-activated version.  And as a corp, if
> your IT staff has to handle the CDs, it only takes one disgruntled
employee
> to leak the software and there's not much you can do.
>

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