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From: "J. P. Gilliver (John)" 
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Subject: Re: Since we're talking about Lenovo Thinkpads......
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 22:22:59 +0000
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In message , 
gfretwell@aol.com writes:
>On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 17:26:06 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
> wrote:
[]
>>Presumably you have a spare licence, or a volume licence (you may not
>>want to answer that on a public newsgroup!).
>>>
>Any old hardware hacker has a machine or two around with a COA sticker
>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.
-- 
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

As individuals, politicians are usually quite charming, so it is quite hard to
dislike them, but in most cases, it is worth making the effort.
- Mark Williams (UMRA), 2013-4-26
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