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General Category => Software => Topic started by: j0j081 on July 14, 2002, 12:32:56 PM
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if you are using a cracked version of windows xp beware! i read this last night while doing some research on sp1...
Microsoft\'s controversial Windows Product Activation (WPA) technology is also seeing two minor modifications in XP SP1, neither of which will affect any legitimate users. First, the company discovered that the majority of pirated XP copies out there are tied to single volume license product key. So Microsoft has alerted the company about the problem, changed their key, and disabled it for use after SP1. So anyone using this pirated key will be unable to upgrade to SP1 or any future updates via Windows Update, Sullivan said.
Also, Microsoft is adding a three-day grace period for people that use the same product key to install XP on two different systems; in the past, there was no grace period and the user had to immediately activation via phone in order to use XP on the second system. This will give users some breathing room if disaster strikes and you have to install XP on a new system.
\"The impact on valid licenses is zero,\" Sullivan said.
the article can be found at:
http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/window...sp1_preview.asp (http://\"http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/windowsxp_sp1_preview.asp\")