Re: Microsoft and MACs

["Eric M. Bennett" <ericb@pobox.com>]

>On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, stan johnson wrote:
>
>> And what are you going to do when the "you must register this software
>> or it won't work more than [60?] days" program M$ is now trying out
>> becomes fully implemented??
>
>I'll keep setting my clock back.  That's what I plan to do with the Y2K
>problems on Win95.  I'm not going to install the M$ patches by installing
>IE4.

As I recall, Microsoft's plan was to use a launch counter... after X number
of launches it stops working until you register.  Setting the date back
won't fix that... you'd have to zap the counter (surely somebody will
figure out a way to hack that).



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