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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. 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 Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  2. 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

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

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

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

    And you have a problem with that?

  5. 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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