decaff - 2:32 pm on Jul 30, 2004 (gmt 0)

If it is true that SP2 for XP will have an aggressive technology embedded that "could" render a pirated copy of XP useless, then this is direct from the Microsoft "War Room"...
With actual competition starting to widdle away at Microsoft's market share and their stock price experience stagnation over the last couple of years (thus their aggressive dividend payout announcement of recent)...they will find every opportunity to retain their coveted market share and enhance their revenues...if this means possibly disabling thousands (millions?) of pirated XP systems...thus forcing the individual/company to actually purhase XP...well there's always Linux/Open Office/Firefox....

Firefox is just plain wicked cool..