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echo: osdebate
to: mike
from: Don Hills
date: 2006-12-04 11:51:16
subject: Re: XP surprise

From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article , mike
 wrote:
>
>Exactly.  It is just crazy to allow the risk of a Windows shutdown
>inside a corporation.  Or a country.

Has anyone looked carefully at the licensing and actual validation process
in corporate and Govt versions of Vista? I seem to recall mention of
companies being able to run their own validation servers, so that
validation is under control of the company instead of Microsoft.

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