With all the hoopla over the release of the final version of the Linux
2.4.0 kernel last week, Microsoft Corp.'s delivery of an interim beta
version of its Windows 2000 successor, code-named Whistler, got lost in
the shuffle.
But according to Whistler testers, Microsoft issued build 2410 of its
At 5:23 PM -0500 1/9/01, Ray Dillinger wrote:
But if Microsoft and its ilk do in fact successfully create systems
that prevent "piracy", it won't be possible to be a hypocrite about
it any more. And with commercial software flatly refusing some
kinds of use, perhaps a fair number of people who
No more casual copying?
The most potentially controversial addition to Whistler 2410, however,
is anti-piracy code that Microsoft is calling "Microsoft Product
Activation for Windows,"
Copy protection is annoying when you have only one machine.
It's much more annoying in the commercially
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Bill Stewart wrote:
The El Cheapo PCs each came with a licensed Win98;
I've got the disks in a stack, and keeping track of which
CD goes with which PC would be a serious annoyance.
It's actually worse, because the PCs are pieces of junk
that need to be have major
