Joswin Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25629.html Hope no one else has posted it but funnley enough after all the stuff about SP1 on neowin and the thread deletions and warez and so forth its in a story titled MS turns up heat on warezed WinXP copies :D lol. But a sharp-eyed reader of Neowin.net has spotted what appears to be an escalation of the role of product activation. The privacy statement now says "To provide you with the appropriate list of updates, Windows Update must collect a certain amount of configuration information from your computer. This information includes: Operating-system version number and Product Identification number... The Product Identification number is collected to confirm that you are running a validly licensed copy of Windows. A validly licensed copy of Windows ensures that you will receive on-going updates from Windows Update." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathLace Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 lol nice neowin :p. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john smith 1924 Veteran Posted June 8, 2002 Veteran Share Posted June 8, 2002 ive decided el - reg loves us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
entr0py Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 Haha, that's kinda funny. Neowin shows up in an artcle with a title like that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathLace Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 Originally posted by entr0py Haha, that's kinda funny. Neowin shows up in an artcle with a title like that... haha, love it :p. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joswin Posted June 8, 2002 Author Share Posted June 8, 2002 Yeah now neowin will be the first place software pirates/warez kiddies will visit to post questions asking how to defeat WPA in XP and change their illegal CD KEY :p :p hehehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aqua.NET Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 Allready reported. https://www.neowin.net/bboard/showthread.ph...&threadid=31124 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanD Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 Kewl! nice ol' neowin warez posterZ :D ;) -sMk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joswin Posted June 8, 2002 Author Share Posted June 8, 2002 Allready reported. https://www.neowin.net/bboard/showth...&threadid=31124 :disappoin :disappoin Aye well ok, anyway something else interesting i just spoted here... http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/25617.html Microsoft Corp faces an embarrassing problem with the roll-out of its handheld "home companion" computer Mira, after a company executive revealed that the device will not work with computers running the Windows XP Home Edition operating system. We know this already but...To get round the problems, Microsoft is now considering either releasing a service pack for XP Home Edition which will include an RDP server, or alternatively forcing Mira Users to upgrade to XP Professional Edition, according to Eddie Wu, Microsoft's senior director for Microsoft's Asian Embedded Systems Group. So you shouldnt have to upgrade to the pro edition after all. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noerr Posted June 12, 2002 Share Posted June 12, 2002 it was mentioned in tomshardware.com (they copy news from register) as well, and that's how I found about ww.neowin.com very glad to found this site :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo Posted June 18, 2002 Share Posted June 18, 2002 hehe very nice indeed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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