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to: Antti Kurenniemi
from: Adam
date: 2006-07-26 12:43:30
subject: Re: MS tech support - installing 3rd party apps can trigger XP activati

From: Adam 

Antti Kurenniemi wrote:
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:44c6a1d9{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......

Adam

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