[Am-info] Fwd: [IP] Microsoft showing its true colors ... Again

[Gene Gaines]

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From: Richard Forno <rforno@infowarrior.org>
To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 11:21:33 -0400
Subj: Microsoft showing its true colors ... Again


According to this BBC article, "SP2 will check the product ID number for the
copy of XP in use on a PC and will not let itself be installed if that
software is a version that has been widely pirated." (The 20 most pirated
numbers.)

For a little while, I thought Microsoft finally was doing a responsible
thing by allowing any and all users of WinXP (legitimate or pirated) to
install the major security update in XP SP 2.   :sighs:   But, true to form,
the company again decides that its business interests (eg, profits) should
never, EVER take a secondary priority to something as important as .... (for
example) the good of the Internet. How very typical.

Source:

Microsoft bars Windows pirates
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3774567.stm



-rick
Infowarrior.org

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Gene 
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