From: "Rich Gauszka" 

 The idea that one could make consumers comfortable into purchasing a new
product that effectively calls the purchaser  a thief and demands to check
for theft every xx amount of days is  stupefying.

Are you a thief today? Let wga determine that for you

"Robert Comer"  wrote in
message news:gdu70395hvp5lsbj6fockjqjfn2vet3kql{at}4ax.com...
> 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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