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Alias wrote:
Each country has a different situation. In China, for example, you would
be hard pressed to find someone with legit software of any flavor.
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WGA notification, up to this moment (28th June), has not come to China.
Simplified Chinese Windows XP users don't get this update.

Secondly, 90% of Windows XP users in China are using pirated XP.
The version must be Windows XP Professional SP2 Volume License Edition.

This is the XP used by large companies and no activiation is required.
Go to www.yahoo.com.cn (Yahoo China)
search keyword "Windows XP" and you get hundreds of website where you
can download it from.

The WGA is quite useless to Chinese users.

#1 Install Volume License XP and no activiation is needed. Regarding
add-on and Windows Update, in case validation failed, change CD-KEY to
an updated version that you can find in numerous well-known Chinese
forum OR simply install a crack patch that widely available.

or

#2 Change PC BIOS (DIY PC) to a brand PC BIOS (say HP PC BIOS), then
install branded OEM XP (say HP Windows XP), that works perfectly !! The
pirated XP disc of this kind of XP should come with that little tool
that help you to flash PC BIOS

Either way, you get a perfect working Windows XP that has no difference
from a geunie Windows.

If you ask a chinese user, why don't you get an original Windows XP?
he probably answer, "what's the difference between a pirated xp and an
original xp other than the price?"

Chinese cosumers willing to spend lots of money on high-tech hardware
such as the latest Nokia cell phone but never ever want to pay for a
Windows. (Note: Nokia cell phones in China has a price 20% higher than
in US)

Microsoft has to do something in China, to make people aware that,
there ARE differences between pirated windows and original windows. But
should not mess around in other low piracy markets.

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