Author: Torstein Hall
Date: 16:48:44 10/24/01
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On October 24, 2001 at 15:09:08, Tom Kerrigan 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 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 Its a bit cumbersome to have to call a telephone number to reactivate your PC if you have installed to hardware. Not exactly what I call user friendly.... And then its that psychological feeling that someone else takes control of your PC..... :-) Torstein
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