WinXP

[isochar]

Isn't casual copying piracy? (By a software company's terms/conditions)

[Wombat]

Yes, but piracy is not casual copying.

To butcher the Mad Hatter, "I see what I eat" versus "I eat what I see."

[xortam]

What is the proposed responsiveness of their customer support personnel to product reactivation? Will M$FT provide 24x7x365 phone support for people modifying their HW at odd hours? What will the total elapsed time be for enacting the reactivation? "Microsoft Support Center ... please hold ... (elevator music comes on) ... ... ... ... ... ... ... "

[High_Jumbllama]

http://www.wininformant.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=19612

Hmm, sticking it to the consumer.

I do actually think it is an improvement over 9x/ME (don't know about 2000), but this registration and .net stuff sucks.

Isochar, the cluster of links in the article itself do not work.

[Gurm]

.NET is silly, and the activation will go away, I nearly guarantee. Even the beta testers are trolling the net for cracks for activation. How bad is that?

- Gurm

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Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.

[isochar]

I'll agree with you on the product activation. Can't even imagine how many times I'll have to call Microsoft to get re-issued an activation key...

On the bright side, Microsoft's customer support is top-notch. At least I won't have to go through 5 minutes of automated menus and then hold for an hour... (recently had this experience with Netgear )

The .net just sucks. I don't want to see software turn into a service.

As for "hailstorm", it shows promise if the privacy issues are addressed. There's a good commentary on it here:

http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2699718,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews02

[This message has been edited by isochar (edited 22 March 2001).]

[Black_Hawk]

I've thought about this, and I just can't see MS taking time and money to handle "phone calls" to activate. Seems more likely they would offer an anonymous online activation.

Now if you were to try to activate 12 times in as many days, you might get told to make that call. But, if you can't get it right in a dozen attempts, you need to be calling somebody!!!

Just a thought...

I tried that www.slota.com link and it doesn't work. As I do have a slot a system in the other room, would someone please give me a corrected link, thanks,

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^^Flyin High Again^^

[xortam]

There has to be phone line support for those who currently don't have on-line access.

[xortam]

Where's IBM this time? Still stinging from their involvement in the late 30s?

[xortam]

BTW, anyone familiar with Novell's digitalme technology of the last couple years. Ring a familiar bell?

[High_Jumbllama]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by Black_Hawk:

I tried that www.slota.com link and it doesn't work. As I do have a slot a system in the other room, would someone please give me a corrected link, thanks,

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I had put a comma right after the first time I typed it in. I corrected it.

Microsoft already takes calls for Office 2000 which already has this feature so the basics of the service have been in place for some time now.

[nehalmistry]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/techart/winxpintro1.gif

here's a picture, btw, im guessing XP will require 128 megs to run comfortably...



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Asus P5A-B MoBo w/AMD K6-266@300 (100mhz FSB)
Matrox Milleniumm G200 AGP (oh, lets party)
Creative SB Awe32 (a classic, superb card)
Realtek 8029A NIC Card
128meg (2x64) 100mhz SDRam
Ali V agp chipset (2x)
30 gig HD 7200 RPM UDMA 66
ALI 1543 IDE Controller (ATA 33)
Optiquest Q53 15" Monitor
Actima 36X CD-Rom
Slackware Linux 7.1
Windows 95B (for gaming)
ICQ UIN: 24730025

[High_Jumbllama]

The one review posted somewhere above says that it requires 64, it is recomended to have 128 and the reviewer said that to run comfortably it should have 256MB.

Now is that MS Certified PC 800 or PC 2100.