On 10 Mar 2005 at 23:26, Owain Sutton wrote: > David W. Fenton wrote: > > On 10 Mar 2005 at 17:33, A-NO-NE Music wrote: > > > >>David W. Fenton / 05.3.10 / 05:24 PM wrote: > >> > >>>The former can install on any number of PCs, but can be > >>>authenticated on only one PC. > >> > >>Sorry for a dumb question but what does this mean? > >>Would un-authed XP bite me? > > > > Yes, it stops booting after N days. > > It actually can be re-authenticated on new installations after a few > weeks. The whole XP authentication system may seem Orwellian, but > actually they don't care about one extra install on a second PC, > months after the original. I've used the same product key on > replacement computers, and not had any problem with authorisation. > What they care about somebody churning out hundreds of pirated > installations. And in any case, it's pretty much acknowledged that > the XP authentication system is screwed, and everything has been > hacked.
That's interesting, because the authentication for Office XP won't re- authenticate on a second machine under any circumstances. Why in the world would they make their Office suite more difficult to authenticate than their OS? In any event, they can change their minds about this policy any time they like, so I'd still not want to depend on WinXP. I don't like WinXP, anyway, vastly preferring just about everything in Win2K except the slowness of the boot process. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
