From: "Glenn Meadows" 

If the XP activation servers are still running then.  .

--

Glenn M.
"Mike N."  wrote in message
news:cqsvr2554bc4nbcd23de3om03numhct6vi{at}4ax.com...
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:56:11 -0500, mike  wrote:
>
>>However, Microsoft's next-generation file management system, WinFS,
>>which is based on relational databases, the main feature shelved during
>>the Vista development process is highly unlikely to feature in the
>>update.
>  Glad to hear this - that's a useless feature anyway.
>
>>WinFS is unlikely to feature in Windows itself until Vista
>>successor, code-named Vienna, which is scheduled for delivery sometime
>>between 2009-2012. R
>  Pity the poor sap who buys a Visa upgrade, then a Vienna upgrade.    His
> hard disk crashes, and he recovers like this:
>
> Install   XP.
>  Active XP
> Install Vista
> Activate Vista
> Install Vienna
> Activate Vienna
> Restore files
>
> Elapsed time?  11 days

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5