[ShadowAce]

[AFreeBird]

(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)

[Halgr]

super PING

[I still care]

Thanks so much.

[fatnotlazy]

I think I’ll hold on to my XP...until Microsoft disables it.

[VeniVidiVici]

I think my VL version of Win7 already does this.

[Man50D]

This is tantamount to anti gun activists trying to ban guns knowing the only people who won’t comply are the criminals. In the end law abiding citizens will be the only people adversely effected.

[DManA]

I don’t get why once it has been authenticated why it has to be re-authenticated every 90 days. How would it get unauthentic? If you had an authentic copy why would you install an unauthentic one?

[aft_lizard]

Welcome to 2003.

[aft_lizard]

BTW the update will be optional and as usual those who have nothing to worry about won’t.

I still don’t understand why so many loony tunes get in an uproar over this stuff.

[visualops]

As people who like to tinker with computers, and having built many and cannibalized and rebuilt, changed OS, experimented etc, a certain retail purchase of Win XP has been installed several times but never on more than one machine at a time. Having paid full retail of course we expect to be able to install the damn thing as many times as we please. However with MS this means a phone call and activation every time, and the last time they basically said nope you can’t do this automatically, you’ll have to speak to someone and explain the situation. To me that is just unbelievably insulting that they think that a product that we paid probably close to $200 for several years ago, needs a lifetime of mommy may I to install when we see fit.

[snippy_about_it]

Ping

[King_Corey]

Quit Reading right here Imagine that you're sitting quietly in your living-room at your PC, perhaps watching YouTube. Suddenly, a pair of big, burly guys barge into your house and demand that you let them check your computer to make sure that it's "genuine" and not running pirated software. No, After blasting both of them with my handgun or shotgun...I then call the local Sheriff and have them come clean up and then I send the BILL for the MESS to Microsoft ... Welcome to TEXAS. We END home invaders here.

[VRWCRick]

Microsoft is again proving that they are their own worst enemy.

They are also making me glad that I am running a Mac (Snow Leopard) and some Linux boxes.

It seems that Microsoft only makes running Windows more and more difficult and expensive. With the virus vulnerability and now this, it simply doesn’t make sense to run Windows if you can use an alternative.

[TheStickman]

OS X has no “activation”. It’s nearly impossible to catch a virus in the wild with it. It just works without hassle. Snow Leopard is $29.00. Go figure :)