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I said this in an eairler post. But Microsoft is making it extrememly difficult to copy Windows XP to another computer. As I heard, Windows XP takes your serial number + the your personal info + your machine ID number and sends it to the Microsoft website. And it is not voluntary, and the information is sent with no notification to the user. But if you give the same CD to another friend and they copy it, than Microsoft will shut your computer down, because they will realize that it is same serial number with a different machine ID number. And you have to connect to the internet some how or the computer will shut down if it can't. According to those agreement it can only be intalled on one computer only(and one for back-up reasons only). That is so rediculus, I mean what if you have mutiple computers in your household, than you have to buy a lincience or a another CD. No other operating system does this, and they don't have nearly as much money as Microsoft. Like Apple with Mac OS X, Linux, BeOS, Amiga, Unix and so on.
This I think will kill Microsoft in the future with the courts by using more Monlipizing power
Oh course I think people will create hacks to solve this problem. But to the common user of a computer, they will have to shell out a lot of dollors for Microsoft being Gready. Becuase they thing they can what they want, whenever they want, and people are powerless to stop them.
The cost for the Wintel PC may go up becuase of Microsoft's strict lincencing. But I just taking a guess on that. I have no knowledge that it will.
Anothering thing that is currious. Windows XP went gold last week, but PC's won't be installing them for 2 months fom now. Does anybody know why?