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[FYI] WinXP beta testers still in open revolt over product activation
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- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 18:33:00 +0100
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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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