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Re: OT: Microsoft XP

From: Scott Shafer <sknd100_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:04:39 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.0037644E.20010823145846@fatcity.com>

Let the market decide - don't buy it. I will not tolerate a piece of software that constrains my ability to upgrade my system.

Scott Shafer
San Antonio, TX

Kevin Lange wrote:
>
> Has anyone heard of all the troubles that the new version of Microsoft is
> having getting released ??
>
> One of the ugliest things I see is their new licensing scheme. They make
> sure you are using it only on a specific machine by having its functionality
> based on hardware items on your system. This configuration has to be
> registered either by phone or by internet about a month after it is
> installed or everything stops working. If you change something big, like a
> Network Card or cpu chip, your system will not boot because it thinks you
> have installed it on a different machine.
>
> Anyone have options on the new XP ?



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