From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Yes, I've worked with a friend where they had a volume license package,
where the install disks and key would install XP, and the machine did not
have to go through an activation connection, and it worked just fine.

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Glenn M.


"Tony Ingenoso"  wrote in message
news:41fd916d{at}w3.nls.net...
> Corporate non-activation versions?
>
> "Mike N."  wrote in message
> news:34fqv0piuvma6bioq1q74lsf3srql7jvvn{at}4ax.com...
> >
> >
> > http://weblog.infoworld.com/foster/2005/01/28.html#a209
> >
> > " And, at least in terms of protecting customers from counterfeit
> software,
> > product activation obviously was a complete failure. Is there really any
> > reason to believe that this new validation process will be anymore
> > successful at guaranteeing that honest customers in the future don't
> > unwittingly become one of the Windows' Genuinely Disadvantaged?"
> >
> >    One thing I can't figure out is how all those counterfit versions
> passed
> > product activation.   How did all those crooked distributors get around
> > this?
> >
>
>

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