"Peter Duniho" wrote in
:

At least with XP, once you get the OS activated, as long as you never
have to reinstall it and as long as you never install some Microsoft
update that can disable it the way that Vista can be disabled, you are
assured that the operating system will continue to work indefinitely.
With Vista, there is no such guarantee.

There are many reasons I hate copy protection, and product activation in
particular, and this is one of them.

Well, that's kinda exactly what I was afraid of, although it seems like Vista
is the first version to fear...

Hopefully by 2009 these guys will have their act together...

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