| |
| Writings Discussion Authors Help Search Home |
Macs are still better By: Mark Morgan on 9/2/2001; 1:26 PM Aradia and I are planning on getting her a Wintel box so that she doesn't have to deal with Elroy the iMac's superior user interface. Ahem. So I've been looking into what's what in the PC world and I must say, hey, Microsoft is still a bunch of monopolistic heathens, aren't they? Walt Mossberg, who isn't getting paid enough for what he does, has a very nice rundown on Windows XP. What the Q & A doesn't make clear is that Software Activation not only keeps one from horribly bootlegging your copy of XP onto your kid's computer--damn you, you pirate hacker you--but it also makes you call Microsoft for permission to add new hardware to your own computer. When you first install XP you get it for 30 days before you have to activate it. To activate it, Windows XP generates a key, based on the software's ID number and the specific configuration of your hardware. If you move XP, or so much as upgrade your damn modem, XP ceases to function. Microsoft tech support is going to be buried in pissed off geeks who just installed a hot new video card so they can pound their friends at Everquest.
Re: Macs are still better By: Brian Carnell on 9/2/2001; 3:54 PM At 02:42 PM 9/2/01 -0400, Mark wrote: >Microsoft tech support is going to be buried in pissed off geeks who just >installed a hot new video card so they can pound their friends at Everquest. I think what is likely to happen is that it won't take more than a couple of weeks until there are about a half a dozen ways are discovered (and posted to the Internet) to bypass activation.
|
|
||||||||||||||||
| Copyright Notice | Privacy Policy | Contact | |
 |
|