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The concern is about a) false positives, b) what happens on non-internet connected machines inside secure facilities e.g. nuclear power stations, banks, police
by wendroid 17y ago
The concern is about a) false positives, b) what happens on non-internet connected machines inside secure facilities e.g. nuclear power stations, banks, police stations, hospitals &c. &c.
So the only victims will ever be valid paying customers.
- chrischen 17y agoAs far as b) is concerned, it says if it can't connect to the validation server nothing happens. No penalty. As far as a) is concerned, call customer support. It says you might be able to get it for free if you are a victim of fraud, and if not you should be able to clear it up. You can easily bypass the activation limit by calling support, so something like a false positive should be easily correctable. I really don't see any valid excuse against this unless you pirate. And if you don't like the system for any legitimate reason, don't buy Windows.
- barrkel 17y agoAnd what if the company goes away? Or is acquired by another company that doesn't want to support it? Don't forget, this isn't just Windows. Other companies will point at MS and use it to justify their own actions.
- chrischen 17y agoIf the company goes away then the servers that invalidate your Windows will not do so anymore. This system would be a problem, but only if having a working OS depended on Microsoft keeping its servers up.
- TeHCrAzY 17y agoI'm reasonably sure the Eula states that you, quite specifically, cannot use Windows for things such as Nuclear Power Plants. Likewise, if you were using it, wouldn't you be talking to Microsoft about specially hardened version of the software (or to a linux vendor who could provide the same)?.
- wendroid 17y agoYou might not run the reactor with it or the heart monitors but ancillary staff need terminals for which Windows is suited and if I was running the place I'd want an air gap.