re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' Tuesday, July 4, 2006 at 7:48 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Sidevalve (13 messages posted) Can you tell me what their phone number is? The OFFICE PRO 2007 BETA ACtivation process (which is FAILING to connect to the internet thanks to their defective products!) will not give me a pnumber to call so far! Cedric On Sunday, June 5, 2005 at 5:19 am, Matthew D. Healy wrote: >Microsoft has stated publicly a number of times that, >should they ever decide to turn off the Product >Activation phone lines for any product, they would >provide users with a means to disable Product >Activation before they stopped answering those >phone numbers. > >Of course, if this happens after the end of their >Product Life Cycle schedule, they would stop >issuing security patches, as they have done some >time ago for NT4 -- so NT4 servers can still run >today, but you'd better put them behind a good >firewall because NT4 has some bugs that will never >get patched. But the issue of patch support is a >distinct issue from Product Activation. > >I think much that has been said about WPA pertains >not to WPA per se, but to other >things Redmond does that are perceived as being >customer control tactics. Such as not fixing NT4 >security holes, which forced a number of companies >(including mine) to upgrade some old servers that were >otherwise working just fine. > > > > Written in response to: re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Matthew D. Healy: Sunday, June 5, 2005 at 5:19 am) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (666: Tuesday, July 4, 2006 at 9:26 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (JAMES MITCHUM: Fri, Sep 10, 2004, 7:10 pm) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Steve: Fri, Sep 10, 2004, 8:24 pm) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (JAMES MITCHUM: Sat, Sep 11, 2004, 4:48 pm) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Steve: Sat, Sep 11, 2004, 5:03 pm) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (666: Sat, Sep 11, 2004, 7:07 pm) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (obts: Sat, Dec 4, 2004, 10:41 am) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (666: Sat, Dec 4, 2004, 11:06 am) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Matthew D. Healy: Sun, Jun 5, 2005, 5:19 am) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Brandi: Sun, Mar 19, 2006, 12:25 am) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Sidevalve: Tue, Jul 4, 2006, 7:48 am) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (666: Tue, Jul 4, 2006, 9:26 am) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Sidevalve: Tue, Jul 4, 2006, 2:03 pm) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Sidevalve: Tue, Jul 4, 2006, 6:44 pm) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (jacques: Sat, Jun 4, 2005, 9:04 pm) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (welat: Wed, May 25, 2011, 6:46 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum