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From: "J. P. Gilliver (John)" 
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Subject: Re: Since we're talking about Lenovo Thinkpads......
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In message , 
gfretwell{at}aol.com writes:
>On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 22:22:59 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
> wrote:
>
>>In message ,
>>gfretwell{at}aol.com writes:
[]
>>>on it. In real life MS doesn't really seem to care about XP anymore
>>>anyway. They will authenticate anything with a valid number.
>>>Mine all say "genuine microsoft" or words to that effect.
>>
>>One does wonder why they continue to do that.
>
>I suspect maintaining the old server that tried to track hardware
>changes and then had people sitting by the phone to reconcile the
>differences was not worth it for a software package they were not

Oh, sure; I meant, I'm not sure why they're continuing to authenticate 
at all.

>selling anymore. They certainly do not want to say they will breach
>the EULA contract and abandon their customers after a while.

Why not though? Obviously, I'm happy that they _are_ continuing to 
authenticate, just wondering why.

>That is why they want to migrate to the subscription model with a hard
>drop dead date if you don't keep paying, getting away from a lifetime
>sale.

Indeed. I don't think even W10 has got to that yet, but the 
can't-block-updates (for most people with moderate or low computer 
skills, anyway) is certainly moving towards that.
-- 
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar{at}T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

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shabbiness as a badge of civilisation. - Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, in Radio
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