That Windows XP needs to ‘call home’ is one of the (many) reasons I never used it. apt-get, apt-rmp, or urpmi, or whatever your distro’s equivalent, at least big brother is not preventing you from freely upgrading your system. It would be quite ironic if they were all exploited in unison to DDoS M$ servers. What a beautiful sight that will be thousands upon thousands of illegal copies of windoes unable to get the latest security updates. Makes me chuckle thinking they’re going to somehow lock down windows update. You gotta figure a keygren of this can be reverse-engineered much in the same manner Norton’s “phone challenge” piracy measure has been hurdled. For honest Joe Customer it means a the headache of having to wait on hold until some M$ phone jockey gives you the magic key to unlock your version of windows. The hackers will always find a way around these so called security measures. I cann see that happening again if Microsoft forces every version of XP or Longhorn to require activation. I remember when XP was in the beta stages and there was a crack to get around the activation. People who use and get hacked versions of Windows XP, at least those in the know use the “corp” version that doesn t require activation. Seems more to me like Micrsoft is punishing the honest.
