From: "Geo" 

"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
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> It'll get funny before it blows up in their face. Think what some Big Boss
> of a Big Company will say when they find out they had to hire an extra
17000
> people just to run around entering some activation codes, and yet another
> 12000 people to argue on the phone with MS about which one of those codes
> are pirated and which ones are not. I worked in a company where we had
only
> some 60 desktops, and even there it was not too rare to get the occasional
> wrong license code when someone had put their Office CD's in the wrong
> place, or something like that. Hoo-wee!

Oh no even better than that. The whole reason for this constant checking is
to allow MS to deactivate or kill certain activation codes should they
somehow find their way to the internet, and should the machines fail to
connect for X days it auto deactivates. Imagine something going wrong,
going wrong, going wrong, going wrong...

heh, I can see the headlines now.. "Congress outlaws Windows use as
National Security Threat"

Geo.

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