From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Adam"  wrote in message
news:4524e566{at}w3.nls.net...
>> looks like the wga trojan has been *enhanced* for Vista. MS will let you
>> boot but they won't let you run any programs  except the brower for an
>> hour. I wonder how long it will take for stories of legitimate user
>> lockouts to hit the net?
>>
>
> Great news. The harder piracy becomes the more attractive non "piracy
> protected" systems become.
>
> Given the fun & games wrt WGA, I'd not trust a production machine which
> could lock itself at someone else's behest.

Or a bug - there are bugs in software, everyone knows that by know, so
there's simply no go for this kind of system on a server that really needs
to run all the time. That being, oh, maybe 101 % of servers.


> I can just imagine being in an airport lounge somewhere with a locked
> machine & the joy that would be if I had a meeting/presentation at the
> other end of a taxi ride.

Eggzactly. Can't say I'm going to recommend vista to any of my customers.


Antti Kurenniemi

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