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NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 18:39:58 -0600
From: gfretwell@aol.com
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Subject: Re: Since we're talking about Lenovo Thinkpads......
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 19:39:49 -0500
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On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 22:22:59 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
 wrote:

>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.

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