[Upd-discuss] Microsoft

[Martha Luehrmann]

Would the group be at all interested in Microsoft's attempts to control 
its after-sales markets and maintain back-door access into people's 
computers?

Martha Luehrmann
MarthaL@california.com


>> I bought this new note book computer with Windows XP and a message 
>> keeps
>> popping up on my screen: "5 days to activation. Do you want to 
>> activate
>> now?" What is activation and what happens if I don't activate?
>>
>> Paul Lamar

-> WP Marsh wrote:
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> 'Activation' is a more intense form of registration.  If you don't 
> activate XP, it will stop working.  Plug a phone line into it, select 
> 'Activation', and it
> should do it for you via modem connection.
>
> wp marsh

You mean after I paid for this product it is going to stop working and 
self destruct?

That is like buying a car and not registering it in a month or two it 
turn to dust.
I don't think that is legal. Why are people so stupid to put up with 
this?

If I plug a phone line into it in theory there is a back door that 
nobody
but Microsoft can access. That is a monstrous invasion of privacy.

Are there any lawyers out there that want to get rich way beyond their 
wildest
imagination?

Paul Lamar

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