Subj : Re: Since we're talking about Lenovo Thinkpads...... To : All From : gfretwell@aol.com Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 19:16:25 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.o rg!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.roellig-ltd.de!open-news-network.o rg!peer01.am4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer02.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.c om!news.highwinds-media.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!bu ffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.P OSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 18:39:58 -0600 From: gfretwell@aol.com Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Subject: Re: Since we're talking about Lenovo Thinkpads...... Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 19:39:49 -0500 Message-ID: References: <2g3d6mUuocDaFwPs@soft255.demon.co.uk> <223s0dl4nttg0kha59dj1c8be9cnokpgd5@4ax.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.91/32.564 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 26 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-IPYcbrCovof9qCUHLbXOsdwaNE0NH/jlRVxb/jyHs/so1CRaaQCZubsJH3yqNHnZCYpOlDehNz8 zbBI!sWYNisMbHF6dgD3kyTedy4boksnUfcqaeye7yQh8PmazKLYNOAFBZs9QejFu1ji1DdMIDHw= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2470 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3171904931 X-Received-Bytes: 2713 Xref: feeder.eternal-september.org microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:134602 On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 22:22:59 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote: >In message <223s0dl4nttg0kha59dj1c8be9cnokpgd5@4ax.com>, >gfretwell@aol.com writes: >>On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 17:26:06 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" >> wrote: >[] >>>Presumably you have a spare licence, or a volume licence (you may not >>>want to answer that on a public newsgroup!). >>>> >>Any old hardware hacker has a machine or two around with a COA sticker >>on it. In real life MS doesn't really seem to care about XP anymore >>anyway. They will authenticate anything with a valid number. >>Mine all say "genuine microsoft" or words to that effect. > >One does wonder why they continue to do that. I suspect maintaining the old server that tried to track hardware changes and then had people sitting by the phone to reconcile the differences was not worth it for a software package they were not selling anymore. They certainly do not want to say they will breach the EULA contract and abandon their customers after a while. That is why they want to migrate to the subscription model with a hard drop dead date if you don't keep paying, getting away from a lifetime sale. --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1 * Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013) .