[ale] Finding desktops, laptops and hardware in Atlanat

[James P. Kinney III]

On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 10:14 -0500, Jeff Hubbs wrote:

> The problem with this in practice is that when Micro Seconds, Goodwill, 
> etc., accepts a computer, how do they know if the license is still in 
> force?  They can't - unless MS has some sort of phone-home database that 
> keeps track of all licenses and license holders.

They have it in the system updater process. That's why the security
patches now require the "new" updater tool. As long as the user name
list hasn't changed the system just appears to have been relocated to a
new ISP. Start adding new user accounts...


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