In the wee hour of 06:59 PM 4/27/01 -0500, Barry Aronson bequeathed such
tales as these:
>Hello Listers! Coincidentally this article came to me with Microsoft's
>POV in it. Here it is: Maximum PC: Microsoft Details Product Activation,
>Anti-Piracy Efforts
> www.maximumpc.com Return to regular view
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> Microsoft Details Product Activation, Anti-Piracy Efforts
> ~Maximum PC
> URL: http://www.maximumpc.com/content/2001/04/27/12895
>
> Product Activation will not track the IP addresses of people who
> activate,
> and in no way does it allow Microsoft to secretly grab information or
> track users. Nieman said he expects security experts to sniff the
> packets
> Product Activation sends out and is confident it will pass with a clean
> bill of health. Microsoft said it knows the company has slipped on
> privacy
> concerns in the past, but that this time is different--it's doing the
> right thing.
>
>
>
>It is interesting how POVs are so different when self-interest is involved.
>
>Barry Aronson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I personally don't like this idea either, however considering how many
"grey-area" or"slightly warm" copies of MS software and operating systems
are floating around the globe then it's perfectly understandable that MS
would like to have each of it's customers actually pay for the MS software
they install. MS is stressing that their corporate versions won't require
activation which will allow for a number of copies to be let loose on the
internet and through other means too, it's happened before and will happen
again unfortunately for MS. And this type of activation is not new. Other
software vendors sometimes ask for user details when they have Internet
registration/activations. I remember a few graphics software vendors
having this feature in their applications. Also users of Office 2000 who
opted to update their suites with SR-1a through the internet would have
experienced this service too. If you had a certain copy of Office 2000
with a certain cd key then you would have found that your software would
have been disabled too.
And since the bottom line seems to be one of privacy, then that too is a
little naive because computers are not the things to have if you are
concerned about privacy at all.
Just my 2 cents.
Peter Kaulback
I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.
Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
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