Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 12:09:08 10/24/01
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On October 24, 2001 at 00:23:56, William Penn wrote: >I wonder if you considered the privacy issue with Windows XP? You must "phone >home" to activate it, and you cannot reinstall it without doing the same. >Microsoft accesses and stores in their archives certain private information >about you and your computer system, then has the ability to grant or deny you >access to Windows XP and your own computer! At least that is what I hear, so I >am leary of it. >WP I would stop paying attention to wherever you heard that crap from. Microsoft does not store private information about you. They can not control access to your own machine. The only way you might not be able to use WinXP is if you're pirating it, which seems reasonable to me. -Tom
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