Weighing Profits against Peril

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Weighing Profits against Peril
Mark Rasch, 2004-05-24

Denying XP pirates the SP2 upgrade would hurt the Internet to protect Microsoft's bottom line.

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Yvan Boily (1 replies)

The first thing that came to my mind was the next generation of virus which would reset the registered activation code to one of the "20 most wanted" codes.

So long for Windows Update if updates are blocked for those 20 codes....

Just a thought...

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