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Subject: Re: XP Experience until now

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 20:44:09 10/27/01

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On October 27, 2001 at 23:23:09, John Merlino wrote:

>On October 27, 2001 at 18:53:02, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>On October 27, 2001 at 15:44:43, John Merlino wrote:
>>
>>Just to let you know, I run Chessmaster 8k on Windows 2000 Server, and the only
>>problem I have is the boxes not redrawing properly.  :)
>
>What boxes?

90% of them I have seen.  (Which might be 10% of all of them!)

Mostly the personality window.  If I want to change who I am playing, it will
pop up all messed up.

If you'd like, I could send you some screen shots!

>
>>>And, of course, all of these could be directly traced to Windows 2000/NT. This
>>>was making me dread how well CM8000 would work on XP.
>>>
>>>Thankfully, by all accounts (which, admittedly, is still less than a dozen),
>>>there are no problems.
>>>
>>>However, I STILL hate the fact that you can't install it on more than one
>>>machine. And if you want to have ANY "fully-compliant" XP program on more than
>>>one computer you have to buy two copies of it. At least, that's what I've heard,
>>>but the only programs that I've actually been told enforce this requirement are
>>>Microsoft programs (such as Office XP).
>>
>>This could *not* be further from the truth.
>>
>>They will let you install it on any computer that belongs to you, that you use
>>*personally*.  It can NOT be owned by your company, or furnished by your
>>company.  I myself have 3 computers, in which I registered Office XP for all 3
>>of them.  I did not have to register my copy of Windows XP.
>>
>>Of course, you'll have a hard time explaining to MS why you have 20 comptuers.
>>But home LAN's are pretty common now.
>
>I have no personal experience with XP. However, my boss (who is exceptionally
>computer savvy, and would know as much about these things as anybody) told me
>that Office XP would NOT (i.e. refused to) install on a second machine,
>apparently because it was already installed on a different machine.

When I called in to "register" my copy of XP, I told the lady I had 3 computers.
 Her response was, "No problem sir, I would be more than happy to give you keys
for all of them."

>jm



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