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Microsoft Changes Tune Again On SP2 Installs

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the small-time-pirates-get-away-with-upgrading dept.

KidHash writes "Following on from last months Slashdot story, it appears Microsoft has changed its tune with the BBC reporting that SP2 will not install on XP installations using the '20 most pirated product IDs.'"

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  1. Re:Locate foot. Aim. FIRE! by weapon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Will they publicise which keys are affected by this "Feture/Bug"? Dave

  2. Nothing to see here, move along... by zoloto · · Score: 5, Funny

    Most of us run something other than Windows(TM) right? This IS slashdot after all.

    1. Re:Nothing to see here, move along... by PhrostyMcByte · · Score: 5, Funny

      yes, this IS slashdot. 80% of it's users are linux zealots, and 90% of them are in windows ;)

    2. Re:Nothing to see here, move along... by kfg · · Score: 2, Funny

      80% of it's users are linux zealots, and 90% of them are in windows ;)

      That's a damned lie! Just because I happen to be posting under Windows right now doesn't mean. . .

      Oh, wait, ummmmmmmmmm, nevermind.

      KFG

    3. Re:Nothing to see here, move along... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      There's no better reason to hate Windows than having to use it.

  3. Re:Locate foot. Aim. FIRE! by kfg · · Score: 3, Funny

    Will they publicise which keys are affected by this "Feture/Bug"? Dave

    No, of course not, however, application of the empirical method will, shall we say, "root" them out in a hurry.

    KFG

  4. heh by teknokracy · · Score: 3, Funny

    awesome if you're using one of the 21st or more pirated ID.

  5. Re:Locate foot. Aim. FIRE! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    And you have a problem with that?

  6. Re:He who laughs last... by Mark+Hood · · Score: 5, Funny

    a lot of this comes from those rouge boxes

    Hey, I'd prefer a rouge box to a beige box any day!

    Oh, you meant rogue.....

    Mark

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  7. Re:SP2 Disabling Pirate Copies by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 2, Funny
    Why not just have SP2 install and patch the system then report in ANY WAY POSSIBLE that this is a pirated copy of Window XP. Try and send information to MS identifying the end user if possible through the IP Address, login name, Dial-Up Networking IP account, address, and provider. Gather information from Microsoft Office as well, any Word or Excel Documents that have addresses in them send those to MS as well.

    In other news:

    (Reuters) Microsoft's (MSFT) connections to the net gradually ground to a halt following the release of service pack 2 for their popular Windows XP operating system. Analysts are currently conjecturing that this is the effect of an undocumented feature of the service pack whereas if the service pack is applied to a pirated version of the OS, it reports itself to Microsoft in as many ways as possible in order to eneable Microsoft security to track down and positively locate the pirate.

    Microsoft spokesperson Heather McGillivray stated in a press conference at company headquarters earlier Thursday that the company has put it's top analysts on the problem. People who are seeking to contact Microsoft in the meanwhile are advised to try alternate methods such as by telephone, telegraph or carrier pigeons. For the later, Microsoft has hastily implemented RFC 1149 and RFC 2549 gateways to it's corporate network.