Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (465 mails)

["Michael Rauter" <rauter@xxxxxxx>]

Hi

This is slighly off-topic, but I wonder, if this could be really true.
Have you ever activated xp by phone or internet ? If not, this is the
normal behavior. Windows stops working after a defined period without
activating.

Regards 
M. Rauter

>I'm a QA analyst in my day job.  We installed XP in our QA lab (which
has no internet connections) to 
>test software on when it first came out in MSDN.  Sixty days later it
quit working.  Any attempt to 
>boot on that box popped up a dialog telling us to get all the system
information together and call 
>Microsoft to get the license validation code.  We never did though; we
were shifting at that point to 
>the NT testing phase, so we reimaged the XP machine instead.


>Microsoft started selling XP on October 25, so I figure a couple days
before Christmas this is going 
>to start biting the general public.

				Bear




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