Sean Dennis wrote to Bob Bainbridge

SD>*** Quoting Bob Bainbridge from a message to Charles Scaglione ***

SD>BB> Not until Billy G. gives up the assinine Activation scheme. My
SD>system 

SD>Don't get XP Home.  Get XP Corporate Pro.  No activation BS 
SD>there.  Just a key, like the "good old installs". ;)

There's no such thing as "XP Corporate Pro".  What's known as the 
"corporate edition" is a pirated version of XP Pro with a stolen 
multiple license product key.  As a matter of fact there are two known 
stolen multiple license product keys that are used in the illegal copies 
of XP Pro.  Neither of them are able to use the MS update page.

You can purchase a multiple license version of XP Pro or if you have a 
MSN subscription - either way - no activation is required.  However, 
both purchases are expensive.

Also - many OEMs (Dell, Gateway, Compaq, HP, etc.) pre-install XP Home 
and Pro and use a BIOS locking scheme.  With that method no activation 
is required, however, the OS can not be moved to another type of 
machine.

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