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Story: Microsoft 'frightened' by police XP hack
name and shame
Wish I could. I told the friend to report them to Microsoft as they offer a reward for reporting things like this but she wouldn't and didn't give me the name of the store.
They are obviously cowboys taking advantage of the unsuspecting. It's one of the things I hope vista will help solve -
1) by making it harder to put a unlicensed copy on a users system and
2) The vista experience score will expose companies that put a high speed single core processor in and then rubbish components and then just pitch the "3GHZ + processor" and make it sound like a great deal. When the vista score shows a 2.0 or below then even the novice user can see that their system isn't as powerful as the store claimed.
David Long
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Story: Microsoft 'frightened' by police XP hack
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She really needs to hammer them. She got cheated. Xwindowsjunkie
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