How many times can i install XP on same computer

[kurttrail]

Excuse me Bruce, but you've misinterpreted and subsequently
misrepresented what I wrote. I did not categorically condemn an entire
program, I said there are problems with product activation, which
there are, and they are increasing due to the new restrictions on OEM
installations being unable to activate on-line without changing the
product key that was used to install the software. That and the
outright lie that Windows sometimes displays about having "activated
too many times" and no wonder people get confused. The program is
flawed and if MS continues to use it they should fix the flaws in my
opinion. Just because someone has criticisms of a situation doesn't
mean they are condemning it.

BTW, I didn't intend to make anyone look silly, but I think your
analogies are kind of silly and I never said anything about scrapping
the whole thing. You injected that sort of thinking, not me.

Steve

I'll say it then, PA should be scrapped.


BSA Global Software Piracy Rate:

1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003*
49 46 43 40 38 36 37 40 39 36

* - 1st year using IDC methodology.

MS first introduced PA in 2000 with MSO2KSP1. The piracy rate had been
declining since 1994 as more and more PCs were sold to people for Home
Use. And since MS first introduce PA the piracy rate has been
fluctuating up & down. For calculating the piracy rate in 2003, the BSA
changed its methodology, so that drop is a result of the change. Mike
Newton, campaigns relations manager for the BSA, at the time of the
release of that report said, "Right now we feel that piracy rates are on
the up."

PA is a total failure as a copy-protection tool, and as you noted
earlier, it is also a failure as an educational tool, as it has made it
more confusing for the End User to know all the little arcane policies,
and not to mention the poorly worded PA messages, like the one that
pops up and says that Win XP has been installed too many times, which
adds even more to the End User confusion and frustration!

All this is excepting the technological failures of PA, popping up when
just installing a driver, or flashing the BIOS, or not popping up after
a major hardware change!

Below is an incomplete list of error codes that have accompanied various
different license check errors that would *NEVER* happen to people if it
wasn't for PA!

0x80090006 - http://snipurl.com/990a

0x80070002 - http://snipurl.com/990d

0x80004005 - http://snipurl.com/990e

0X800700C1 - http://snipurl.com/990g

0x8007007e - http://snipurl.com/990i

0x80070003 - http://snipurl.com/990m

0x80090019 - http://snipurl.com/990o

0x8007007f - http://snipurl.com/990t

So considering the complete failure of PA to do ANYTHING positive for
the End User, it should be removed, and not only that, MS owes its
customers an effin' apology for saddling this useless load of crap on
them, FOR NO GOOD REASON!

Sorry for doing this to you, Steve, but saying any of this to Bruce is
like talking to a 5' thick brick wall, and I'd just end up spending half
the post making fun of him, (he would be silly, if he was so serious,
and a skilled propagandist and purveyor of FUD), and not get to half of
my argument for the immediate removal of PA!

--
Peace!
Kurt
Self-anointed Moderator
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"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"