From: "John Beamish" 

Porrly typed in my earlier reply.  What I *really* meant to say was:

Not sure what you're saying here:

Hell will freeze over *before* NHS uses an OS that MS can shut down? Hell
will freeze over *before* MS shuts down machines?

(Note the change in intent.)

On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 05:36:12 -0500, Adam field.near the bridge">
 wrote:

>
>> Hopefully the Vista/Office 2007  kill switch will kill a nice chunk of
>> Microsoft's revenue.
>>
>> Vista - the infinite validation machine?
>>
>>
>
> I had a chat wrt this & the NHS t'other day. The initial feeling is
> "cold day in hell" wrt (possibly accidental)
"deactivation" & a computer
> used in healthcare.
>
>
> So it ain't just governments.
>
> Adam

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