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to: Adam
from: Antti Kurenniemi
date: 2006-07-26 20:20:18
subject: Re: MS tech support - installing 3rd party apps can trigger XP activati

From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Adam"  wrote in message
news:44c755c6{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> While Microsoft insists that problems with the Windows Genuine Advantage
>>> (WGA) program are much overblown -- claiming last week that "only a
>>> fraction of a percent" of the systems that fail the WGA
verification are
>>> actually legal
>>
>> Well that's not much, then. I mean, one tenth of a percent of what, a
>> hundred million installs or more, that's just 100.000 false positives,
>> not bad eh? Wankers...
>>
>> Antti Kurenniemi
>>
>
> If only they could all bill MS at say UKœ20 per hour......

Well a class action law suit with each of the claiming something like 1000
EUR for lost time & forced license updates, maybe that would make a
point.


Antti Kurenniemi

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