Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 19:04:29 10/24/01
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On October 24, 2001 at 16:19:27, Ian Aston wrote: >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 > >How about the reinstall issue. Will you be able to reinstall on the same >machine, without wasting time ringing Microsoft? If you have an Internet connection, you can just click "yes" somewhere and it will activate XP for you in a couple of seconds. [Almost] painless. Just like the first time you install it... -Tom
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