From: mike 

On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 11:51:17 +1200, black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills) wrote:

>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.

What percentage of companies do run their own validation servers?   Do
those servers still need to be validated my Microsoft?  How long after
Microsoft issues the "kill bit" does it take to propagate to the
companies' validation servers?

  /m

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