[ruxp] MEDIA ALERT: Microsoft announces Product Activation Bulletin and Business Evaluation Programme for Windows XP

  • From: "Karl Dallas" <karldallas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <ruxp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, <ruxp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <RUXP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 13:51:54 +0100

Microsoft Publishes a technical market bulletin about Windows Product
Activation

Today Microsoft published a new technical market bulletin about Windows
Product Activation (WPA). To view this market bulletin, please click
here:
http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/basics/xp_activation.asp. 

As you may know, product activation is a technology designed to help
reduce
casual copying and is designed to respect the privacy of the end user
while
protecting Microsoft's intellectual property. It will be included in
Windows
XP as well as other Microsoft products, such as Office XP, and is one
part
of Microsoft's broader anti-piracy effort. 

The latest WPA bulletin helps to clarify the product activation process
and
underscores the fact that it is anonymous, unobtrusive and easy to
complete.
The document also provides information on how the activation process
works
in Windows XP, and clarifies on what customers will/won't need to
complete
the activation process.  For example, did you know that most new
machines
will include Windows XP pre-activated? Or that the majority of hardware
upgrades won't trigger the need to reactivate? 


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