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[FYI] WinXP beta testers still in open revolt over product activation



http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/17742.html

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WinXP beta testers still in open revolt over product activation  

By: John Lettice  

Posted: 20/03/2001 at 16:57 GMT  

Microsoft still hasn't been able to sell its Product Activation 
protection scheme to its own beta testers, judging by some of the 
recent traffic in the Windows XP private beta newsgroups. Transcripts 
obtained by The Register indicate continuing hostility (as you might 
expect from techies), and even seem to signal that the Microsoft 
staff minding the newsgroups aren't altogether enamoured of the 
system either.  

One tester has apparently been thumping a tub (an eminently sensible 
one) for some time: "I am still imploring you at MS to put a 
deactivation feature in the OS. That feature alone would make a lot 
of the people currently unhappy with the activation scheme much 
happier."  

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