Re: windows XP Professional
From: SlowJet (SlowJet_at_noTY2this.com)
Date: 09/07/04
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Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 06:52:35 GMT
Your just jealous.
Most of the references to that program are on .RU links.
And we all know what RU has become.
Growup, punk.
SJ
"Al Smith" <invalid@address.com> wrote in message
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>> Why do you need to activate windows?
>
> Because Microsoft is a greedy and control-mad company. When there was no
> protection whatsoever on Windows, Microsoft was making huge profits, but
> that wasn't good enough for them. It drove them crazy that some people
> were using copies of Windows they didn't pay for, and that other people
> were installing the same copy on two computers, or giving a copy to their
> brother-in-law.
>
> Microsoft came up with product activation as a way of discouraging the
> honest, average customer from putting the OS on two machines at once, or
> giving a copy of the OS to someone else in the family or to a friend. It
> does nothing to reduce piracy of Windows XP. It is not intended to reduce
> piracy in any serious way. It does not increase Microsoft's revenues from
> Windows -- just the opposite, it reduces revenues by driving potential
> users to older versions of Windows, or to Linux.
>
> Product activation is all about control. Microsoft is constantly seeking
> ways to increase its control over the way customers use its products.
> Eventually, Microsoft intends to implement a model wherein the customer
> downloads a time-limited copy of the OS from the Internet, via live
> connection (the program is never downloaded to the hard drive), and pays a
> term subscription for its use. Product activation is a step along the road
> of total customer domination by Microsoft. It's a way to train you with
> negative reinforcement, the way a rancher trains a bull by using a
> cattle-prod.
>
> You can fight back by refusing to spend five seconds worrying about
> product activation. Run the free program "WPA_Kill" which you will find on
> the Internet, and product activation will just go away and never come
> back. Then you can upgrade to your heart's content, install the OS on
> another computer, change your hard drive, change your motherboard, give a
> copy to your grandmother, put a second copy on your other computer -- and
> product activation will remain merely a distant and annoying memory.
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