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Onerous Vista Activation - A Time Bomb?

Overview There has been a lot of chatter over some of the newer activation and validation schemes that Microsoft may or may not implement with its new Vista operating system. Nobody at Microsoft is saying much, and a lot of bloggers and pundits are all over these alleged schemes, calling them bad news for users. The author sees these developments as bad news for Microsoft, especially if what he outlines in this paper actually happens.

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Publisher	Ziff Davis Media	File Format	HTML
Date Published	October 2006	Downloads	4
Format	White Papers
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