Re: Can I use my XP Pro on a new PC?

Patti MacLeod wrote:
> Responses posted inline.
>
>
>
> "kurttrail" <dontemailme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> message news:eSeKvp7VFHA.3320@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Patti MacLeod wrote:
>>> John,
>>>
>>> Although MS might not personally know whether you have removed XP
>>> from your old computer, product activation's rechecking of the
>>> activated hardware might know:
>>>
>>> Is there rechecking of the activation after initial activation? Is
>>> there any secret data transfer to Microsoft?
>>> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=302878#3b
>>
>> And how would a computer rechecking itself figure out that it is
>> installed on another computer?
>>
>> You are full of it. The ONLY way for MS to figure it out is for
>> John to tell MS.
>
> Therefore the use of the word "might" rather than the use of the words
> "would definitely" or "would certainly". If I am full of it, then so
> be it.
>

You are full of it. Just like saying there might be leprechans, would
be full of it!

>>> Genuine Windows Validation may fail if you try to download items
>>> from the Microsoft Download Center using XP on the old PC:
>>>
> http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/downloads/WhyValidate.aspx?FamilyID=5691ba02-e496-465a-bba9-b2f1182cdf24&displaylang=en
>>>
>>> Currently, Genuine Windows Validation is optional, and you can opt
>>> to d/load without performing the validation........but it is
>>> something that I could visualize being made mandatory in the future
>>> (no, I have no "inside track" information about it being made
>>> mandatory........just hazarding a guess).
>>>
>>
>> LOL! Validation has been reported to fail on legitimate systems, and
>> work on those that are pirated. When MS goes Live with mandatory
>> validation, MS is just gonna create a major problem with its paying
>> customers.
>
> Again, the use of the word "may" instead of the word "will".
> I don't see where it was that I said that Validation was absolutely
> infallible.
>
> Just attempting to let John know that there *may* (note the use of
> the word "may" and not the use of the word "will") be potential
> issues, if not immediate then perhaps down the road some time, if he
> violates the EULA (and no, that doesn't mean that I want to get into
> a EULA vs. Fair-use debate........I simply don't have enough free
> time on my hands for that). When the first pirated corporate edition
> copies of XP were circulating and being installed by home users,
> those who had installed these copies of XP had no problems d/loading
> and installing the critical and security patches, etc., from Windows
> Update.......until SP1 came along. Then yes, I know, ways of
> circumventing the inability to install SP1 started circulating, etc.,
> etc. That is *possibly* one of the reasons that Genuine Windows
> Validation (as fallible as it is in its current state) was conceived.

And a meteor that will kill all life *MAY* drop on the earth in the next
24 hours.

Talk about PROBABILITY not POSSIBILITY.

There is a possibility that I may be the devil, but the probability is
not all that likely.

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Peace!
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