Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 11:59:48 10/24/01
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On October 24, 2001 at 13:31:20, Torstein Hall wrote: >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 have planned to let XP rest for a while and let others buy a MS xx.00 product. >Then perhaps I can see where this privacy issue is going and get some >"experience reports". XP is a refresh of Win2k, which has been lauded as an incredibly stable, full-featured OS. It is hardly a xx.00 product. -Tom
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