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Story: PC buyers face product deactivation
Posted by: Anonymous (Tuesday 28 December 2004, 7:13 PM)
Windows XP activation is a monopoly. I have a desktop PC and a laptop at home, both for my own personal use. Microsoft would NOT allow me to load my OWN copy of Windows XP on both machines, even though I purchased it directly from them. They insisted I had to buy an additional "license" to load it on my desktop PC ... which costs the same as an entire new version of Windows XP. This is ROBBERY. Since when does a person not OWN something they BOUGHT from Microsoft? No wonder Bill Gates is a rich man. He brings the term "theft" to a whole new level ... and HE'S the one stealing from consumers now.
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Story: PC buyers face product deactivation
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You are correct; I don't own My HP computer which... Elizabeth Barnes -
Buy a Mac, silly. mongo
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Windows XP activation is a monopoly. I have a des... Anonymous -
Hardly suprising really is it. You have purc... Richard Phillips -
Actually you dont OWN the software, you just... Waj
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Just switch to linux. Anonymous -
Like the origional contributor I ha... John
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