cdbrow1 0 Posted April 24, 2001 On the whole XP validation issue I wonder if MS has another trick in mind. What happens when the forces that be at MS decide that they don't want people running XP anymore (ie time to buy a new OS again)? Will they shut down the validation sysytem? Can they shut off exisit validations (5 year life?). My employer insists on using Windows 95 which is a perfectly reasonable OS for what they do, but MS no long supports it (ie IE 6.0 and Office 2k have issues). Anytime we ask MS for anything the response is "upgrade" - now they will have a hammer to make that happen..... Just my 2 cents... CB Share this post Link to post
ThC 129 0 Posted April 24, 2001 good point i never looked at it that way, and seeing as most users will use it legally (IE no cracked version), that could very well happen or at least make it happen. I never liked activation to begin with but with the point you made makes me really hate it now. Share this post Link to post
SnapperOne 0 Posted April 30, 2001 Old sayings have a tendency to be true! "It's not that you're paranoid. You're not paranoid enough!" Share this post Link to post
