Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 19:06:04 10/24/01
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On October 24, 2001 at 19:48:44, Torstein Hall 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 > >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..... :-) You have to change six pieces of hardware for you to be forced to call up MS. Somewhat annoying for people who frequently upgrade lots of stuff (like me) but not an issue at all for most people. It's not like you have to call whenever you put in a stick of RAM or switch your mouse. :) -Tom
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