Death To Sp1 Rumour?

[tubebuoy]

"There is no truth in this rumor," Allen Nieman, the Lead Technical Product Manager for Licensing Technologies at Microsoft told me Thursday. "We are not changing the way volume licensing customers install or deploy Windows XP. We are not issuing volume licensing customers new product keys. Volume licensing customers are not impacted by any of the changes we are making to activation in SP1. The only folks impacted by the changes we are making in SP1 are people with illegal copies of Windows."

Full story here...

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[pittpull]

interesting and what i can say good news hehe

thx for the story Tube


PittPull

[jefexp]

"The only folks impacted by the changes we are making in SP1 are people with illegal copies of Windows."

HELLOOOOO.....that is the whole point of the story. If you had a legal copy, why would you be concerned????

Go back to your hole and write some code...

[Dudelive]

That will be real good news and it even sounds more real than all the other rumors, but we will still have to wait and see how it all falls in place.

Thanks for the info



Last edited by Dudelive at Jul 25 2002, 06:36 PM

[Jupiter2k]

It could mean "illegal copies of blacklisted blue keys"

just a thougth

[MinnesotaKid]

Yes, all those pirates should be tarred and feathered!

[xgman]

Listen to the Devil and obey!!

[daMANiack]

Hi,

If you read between the lines:

This affects alot of us, even the ones Running Corp with Unique KeyGen generated Corp Key.

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The only folks impacted by the changes we are making in SP1 are people with illegal copies of Windows."

Quote:

As I first reported in May 2002, the WPA feature in XP SP1 will get  two minor modifications, neither of which will affect legitimate users.

We'll see about this one.

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So, Microsoft alerted the company about the problem, changed the company's key, and disabled it for use after SP1. Anyone who uses this pirated key will be unable to upgrade to SP1 or any future updates through Windows Update.

Maybe Bill Gates is getting a bit softer on PIRATED SOFTWARE. NAAAAAAAAAhhhhhhhhh, who am I trying to KID.

Cheerz

[griz]

Thanks fer the info. ...griz

[graham]

Maybe Bill Gates is getting a bit softer on PIRATED SOFTWARE. NAAAAAAAAAhhhhhhhhh, who am I trying to KID.

Why shouldn't he, Microsoft seem to do alright out of their pirating software, the user pays for any fine or settlement !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!