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Computerworld on Microsoft's scratch-cards activation idea:
http://tinyurl.com/3d2zua
Their abomination of Microsoft Genuine Advantage has been trying to get
itself on my older XP machine, and I just close the window, but I'm
concerned that one day one of the younger set in the household will
download it.
I know that not one piece of their software on there is pirated.
The article says that "Windows Vista
<
http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=search&searchTerms=Microsoft+Windows+Vista>
owners, for example, can be forced by Microsoft to reactivate an
already-activated PC, while Windows XP users *can't permanently disable
WGA's
<
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9012762>*
anticounterfeit notifications."
That clinched the decision on my next PC, which will be a Mac. Unless by
some miracle Linux appears.
--Alan
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