M$ removes XP activation, slashes price to bone

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Only for Thai version
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Oh yeah, finally all of us can get our hands on a Thai version. [/sarcasm]

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MS is only charging what they can get away with.
If business and individuals did not think MS software was worth it they would buy something else.

Now if lots of gov'ts and institutions used Linux, MS would have to reduce price just to stay alive!!!

Home users have a slightly different option and until XP started the activation business there was more or less a blind eye turned to the home user :wink: .

Who was P.T.Barnum? Didn't he say there's a sucker born every minute? The value of something is what you will pay for it, it is as simple as that.

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XP Pro with SP1 integrated and Corporate crack has been on warez channels since about 2 days after SP1 was released! Wow, my friend got his copy around a year ago! And get this: Keys produced by the key generator are more likely than not to work on windows update site! The only way a key gets blacklisted is if it's used by multiple users!

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oh well i hacked it the hard way..

anyhow...it is a crappy os anyway...if it has the same features as pervious os's and is slower...there is no point upgrading...long live 2k pro...


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What about Windows Server 2003? Is it good?

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I use the OEM version from lenovo,just to change some information in the BIOS of my mainboard.And that's all,I do not need to worry about activation.
 
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You said it. Long live 2000 Pro.
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I'd agree with that except that 2000 doesn't support HT. Otherwise I'd still be using it.

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I wouldnt doubt that the thai version will be circulating kazaa like a storm soon but remember bill gates has his many kazaa bots looking for those posting it and has them on your shared folders. Do you think the evil bill gates will sue the poor little kids that are the ones pirating them, you bet he will!!!

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Agreed.

XP is tons better than 2000, aside from the solid networking 2000 offers. But that's in Windows XP Network Edition, a.k.a "2003". Upgrading to Windows Server 2003 means you are upgrading to Windows XP in a way.

As for the stupid "Oh but I will lose some performance" BS, who damn cares of 1-2 FPS lost?
Most of the time you get an increase in fact.

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not bs...try recomending someone to run xp who has 256 or 128mb of memory? then tell me that xp is only a tad slower...

Now i know you will say who runs that kind of memory on a modern computer...then look at all the dells and compaqs that ship with 128mb of memory...

I should have rephrased...xp pro does have more features...but how many of them does the home user use?

Plz don't call Mt. rainier a feature...that is a very slow burning program...

I suppose you could call the intigrated zip extractor a feature but if you get winace it has that feature built into the send to menu...

Other than that you get networking features and security features which most home users do not use...

Yes i do know that i got xp when i downloaded 2k3 (from microsoft of all places lol)...but that is exactly the reason i got it...a freind of mine wanted me to build them a computer... he did not like xp any more than i did...so i tryed out 2k3 because it supported hyperthreading...

It is a very good os and much leaner than XP...i do not feel like i need to type regedit every few minutes...the only thing i had to mod was to disable some server related services...other than that i had a factory leaned out version of xp...and that was exactly what i wanted and expected...

I have since gone back to 2k... although 2k3 was a nice os...it had some compatability issues...

No versions of notron internet security would run on 2k3...so i went back...other than that i only have good things to say about 2k3...however i could get all of my games running after i reindabled d3d from dxdiag..


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i disagree, xp has several features that 2k lacks.
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2000 doesn't eat several hundred megs of disk space for $hitty system restore, and low disk space ballon doesn't pop up in every 2 minute when you have low disk space in a drive. (I know it can be disabled, but not in a easy way).

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True.

*blames M$ for not releasing a HT patch for Win2000*

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In relation to running WinXP Pro Vs Win2K, with an AMD 2700+ Tbred CPU, WinXP Pro is definitely faster dual booting on the same machine with Identical hardrives, but what blew me away was that Win98SE compiling the same video ran steady at 10Fps faster than WinXP Pro, now 10Fps may not seem like a big deal to you, but when you relate it to a 3Hr compiling time period, its a big difference, thats 600Fpm, 36,000Fph, and thats a big difference, its a shame Microsoft didn't just correct and perfect Win98SE instead of throwing it by the wayside.

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