[KLUG Members] M$ faces tougher battle in Europe

[Ian]

In one of the articles someone makes the point that this won't effect
business customers of which I would expect a university to qualify as.  

The thing that tripped me out is that if you change "to many" hardware
components XP is deactivated (you then have to convince Microsoft that you
aren't trying to pirate anything).

That is a big problem for me considering how often I rip components out
of a case.  I mean, when someone asks how many computers I have I have to
figure out if they mean HD's with OSes loaded or CPU's (Cases maybe?)

Ian


 On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Joshua Goodrich wrote:

> After reading "Your Daily Dose of Microsoft"  From slashdot.org these
> were the articles that we linked too.
> 
> For those people that have to deal with Microsoft at work.  These are
> very interesting to read.
> 
> http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5093662,00.html
> 
> http://ptech.wsj.com/ptech.html
> 
> http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6464360.html
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/20194.html
> 
> http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/07/03/1811211
> 
> For the college that I work for we are getting 140 new computers, and we
> clone one drive and give it to the vendor to make all 140 pc the same.
> Now with the new office and the new Windows XP that is no longer
> possible.  Or if a machine completely dies all we do is clone it back to
> it's original state this  is not going to be possible.  So what does M$
> expect small IT department  to handle the new registration process?
> 
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