Re: XP license to 2nd computer legal?

On Sun, 28 May 2006 18:26:12 -0700, "JAD" <kapasitor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


"Larry Roberts" <skin-e@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ag6k725kontis6rr9qvcmbjspidbmjm7tn@xxxxxxxxxx

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.



When I said "appropriate machine", I mean the old PC I have
sitting in the next room that can barley run WinXP, but will never be
able to run Vista, or what ever comes after. If that machine is still
around 6yrs, or 50yrs from now, and it may be, I want to know that
license I bought for the retail copy I bought will be able to be
activated. MS won't do this, and activation will be imposible. I'm
even wondering if all the updates, & fixes I download can be applied
without installing the WGA tool? As of now, you have to install, &
pray that WGA functions correctly, to let MS Update scan, & apply
fixes as it is. When MS no longer provides support, and the update
site doesn't work with WinXP, will the fixes I have downloaded, &
burned to CDRW be able to be apllied manually?
.

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