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On 7/13/06, Jones, John (US) <John.Jones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>WGA has been known to disable legit XP installs. Yeah. Livingston is calling WGA a marketing program as it's designed to fear/shame people in to buying more copies of Windows than they need (to replace existing legit copies). Today's issue of Windows Secrets, BTW, notes an alternative to Windows Update that ignores WGA.
If I'm following this, it sounds like MS is deliberately disabling legit XP installs, as opposed to an overly-ambitious, but well-intentioned, effort. Would MS stoop that low? MS does a lot of sucky things that are probably legal, but I would consider that type of activity to be criminal. - Dan
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