From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Geo"  wrote in message
news:44a1f575$4{at}w3.nls.net...
>> The exact details of the "new approach" to VLKs haven't been made
>> clear, but Ward Ralston, a senior technology product manager at
>> Microsoft, has confirmed that the company is "introducing the notion
>> of a key management server" for Windows Vista Server. This program
>> will require licensed customers to check in their keys and Client
>> Access Licenses (CALs) every 30 days, via an automatic reporting
>> process. The procedure for the Vista client will likely not require a
>> key management server, but may also "phone home" periodically to
>> report on the status of various VLK installs.
>
> Well this sure looks like MS is taking aim at their foot, and they are
> aiming the bfg6000
>
> Geo. (this is not a train wreck, it's more like lemmings and a meat
> grinder,
> how can they not see this coming?)

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!


Antti Kurenniemi

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