Subj : Re: WINDOWS XP
To   : Malcolm Miles
From : David R. Norton
Date : Mon Jul 16 2001 04:48 am

<MALCOLM MILES> wrote in message news:995303737.86.0@fastq.com...
> If you reinstall, you are starting afresh and a new hardware baseline is
> created. You will need to activate but that can be an online Internet
> activation

I've already shown that's not possible in many cases.

> and you have 30 days grace. So if you reinstall 15 times in a month,
> you only need to activate at the end of the month.

What about the failures (already documented several times) where it just
decides it need to be reactivated?  Come on, Malcolm, stop trying to defend
the indefensible.  I've supported MS up to now and I realize just how big a
piece of unusable crap Linsuxs is, but that's exactly what I'll be running
if WinXP is released as it is now.


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