Re: XP license to 2nd computer legal?


"Larry Roberts" <skin-e@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Would seem so and, now that you mention it, I don't recall seeing a flood
of angry messages about Microsoft 'disallowing' activation on, well, just
about anything.


WinXP is the first MS product to use this activation method,
and for the time being, it's still supported. I paid for the license,
software, whatever, and want to know I can install it to an
appropriate machine 50yrs from now if I choose. I don't see MS
allowing me to do this even 6yrs from now.


Without MS support, software manufactures stop writing drivers. A
machine 6 years from now, running the latest hardware will have a hard time
running a obsolete OS. Hardware is changing rapidly and in the real near
future building your own computer will be a hobby that you fire up on the
weekends. Computers will be an 'appliance' that you buy(or given to you like
a modem when you sign up for and ISP) and is registered to you. A serial
number, keycode, whatever you want to call it, will be assigned to you and
that will push e -commerce into the 21st century. OS will be on a e prom (or
whatever is latest tech of the time) and not on a disk. This is where you
get the serial attached to you. This prom will be able to attached to any
computer ( appliance) and you will conduct business in this way. Ushering in
...........you guessed it, Global Economy..... A whole nother topic for a
different group..... My opinion of things of course.


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