From: Robert Comer 

Just a guess on the XP side -- just going on what Ballmer said a few weeks
ago about ratcheting up WGA.

I'm not saying it has happened, or have any knowledge of such, but I
wouldn't be surprised...

--
Bob Comer




On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:57:57 -0400, "Rich Gauszka"
 wrote:

>XP now?  Good grief - next I'll have to re-activate if I mount a usb drive
>
>"Robert Comer" 
wrote in message
>news:nct703lp1nrnalmdch6ki4478qtdlvv5ki{at}4ax.com...
>> >Why exactly did this happen? Because Vista (all but the most expensive
>>>version) will not run in a VM?
>>
>> No, Vista, and probably XP with the latest updates, is REAL finicky
>> about changing hardware and if the NIC address changes, Vista thinks
>> it's a new NIC and adds up points to the reactivate algorithm. (truly
>> objectionable in my opinion, a NIC changing should have anything to do
>> with activation.)
>>
>> --
>> Bob Comer
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:33:43 -0400, RobertB 
>> wrote:
>>
>>>In article , "Frank Haber"

>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>> I made a rare visit to the general meeting of my local user group
>>>> Tuesday
>>>> night, celebrity-whoring to catch David Pogue, who was
both flogging his
>>>> new
>>>> book and talking about Vista.  He's a smart cookie, and very
>>>> entertaining
>>>> (see
>>>> his NY Times videos).  He's a tad juvenile at times, but
hey, I'm still
>>>> a
>>>> teen-ager in lots of ways.  He's not highly technical, but he's my
>>>> interface
>>>> guru.  I credit him with teaching this left-brainer about
how to use Mac
>>>> OS X
>>>> fluidly, the right way.
>>>>
>>>> Well, Pogue gave some great demos, and good tips, and wasn't *too*
>>>> completely
>>>> committed to Microsoft.  It does seem true that he who
loves Vista best
>>>> is,
>>>> if
>>>> not a Mac fanboy, at least a Mac admirer.  His
presentation was fairly
>>>> even-handed, and threw some good barbs, especially about
the  feature
>>>> split
>>>> among the too-many versions:
>>>>
>>>> "Home users never need to send a FAX?" 
"Business users never need to
>>>> edit a
>>>> video?"
>>>>
>>>> A brief interlude proved he really is a kind of polymath (he's an
>>>> ex-Broadway
>>>> conductor).  He ran through four or five of his best songs
at the piano
>>>> (!),
>>>> and they were GOOD.  Not Tom Lehrer, but very good.  He threw in a
>>>> couple of
>>>> magic tricks, too.
>>>>
>>>> He demoed on a low-end MacBook 12 btw, mostly under Boot
Camp.  Aero ran
>>>> fine
>>>> on this "3.0" machine (2GB).  Things flew. 
Everyone was impressed,
>>>> including
>>>> me. Although we all noticed that he spent most of the time with Aero
>>>> off, and
>>>> User Account Control off, too.
>>>>
>>>> I then spoiled the party, piping up and complaining loudly that
>>>> Microsoft's
>>>> copy protection DEEPLY OFFENDED ME, and made me feel as
though I were
>>>> being
>>>> treated like a street vendor in Kuala Lumpur.  Pogue was
no toady; he
>>>> gave a
>>>> good "Whatcha going to do?  MS is losing money" response.
>>>>
>>>> Then he rebooted and ran Parallels.  No wireless in the
lecture hall.
>>>> He
>>>> disabled wireless networking in Parallels.  Boom.  Up came
the thievery
>>>> screen.  No more Vista for him that night.
>>>
>>>Why exactly did this happen? Because Vista (all but the most expensive
>>>version) will not run in a VM?
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Q.E.D.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Great show!  Glad I went.  It's good to see a show that's
a show, with
>>>> no
>>>> apologies.
>
--
Bob Comer 

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