Re: Windows Genuine Advantage

From: Mike Brannigan [MSFT] (mikebran_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:17:57 -0000

"Alias" <aka@maskedandanonymous.com> wrote in message
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> "Mike Brannigan [MSFT]" <mikebran@online.microsoft.com> wrote
>
> | > Is there a way I can download a patch so I won't have to enter a
> | > number each time I want a download?
> | >
> |
> | What number ?? You do not have to enter any numbers to download if you
> | system is legitimate. If not you need to go buy a full copy of Windows.
> |
> |
> | --
> |
> | Regards,
> |
> | Mike
> | --
> | Mike Brannigan [Microsoft]
>
> And you work for Microsoft??? LOL! You can either let MS install a program
> on your computer to see if your XP is legit or you can enter your Product
> Key or you can answer three questions. In ALL cases, MS is the judge and
> you
> are the defendant and it really sucks.

Exactly - why would you bother continuously having to retype in a number
when we provide you the option of just downloading the control and your
done.
Yes we are the judge - who else could it be - we know what our software
looks like and we know how to detect if it is legitimate. 

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"Alias" <aka@maskedandanonymous.com> wrote in message 
news:364kboF4sofpkU1@individual.net...
>
> "Mike Brannigan [MSFT]" <mikebran@online.microsoft.com> wrote
>
> | > Is there a way I can download a patch so I won't have to enter a
> | > number each time I want a download?
> | >
> |
> | What number ?? You do not have to enter any numbers to download if you
> | system is legitimate.  If not you need to go buy a full copy of Windows.
> |
> |
> | -- 
> |
> | Regards,
> |
> | Mike
> | --
> | Mike Brannigan [Microsoft]
>
> And you work for Microsoft??? LOL! You can either let MS install a program
> on your computer to see if your XP is legit or you can enter your Product
> Key or you can answer three questions. In ALL cases, MS is the judge and 
> you
> are the defendant and it really sucks.
>
> From: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6868504/
>
> " Customers who visit the manual Windows Update site will be asked to 
> prove
> that their copies of Windows are legitimate [Alias's note: guilty until
> proven innocent] by allowing Microsoft's system to automatically run a
> check, or by providing a *****product identification number*****. Users 
> who
> have lost that number will be asked three basic questions, and if they are
> deemed to be acting in good faith they will be given a free replacement 
> key.
> "
>
> It would seem to me that if you really work for MS you would know about 
> this
> ... and notice it says "if they are ***deemed*** acting in good faith". 
> And
> if they are deemed not to be acting in good faith by some guy in India who
> is in a bad mood???
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