more m$ blag

[Churchill]

undocumented but it's definitely in there as recently experienced by thousands of genuine licensed Vista users who one day could no longer use their WGA restricted crippled systems.

Microsoft are the most backward corporate money grabbing up themselves entity ever to exist...yours faithfully...a .NET developer.

Great innit? - Yours faithfully... A Microsoft Shareholder.

[TheRefactornator]

....Oh yes I could! I'd call the, as yet undocumented, deactivateLicence() function...

undocumented but it's definitely in there as recently experienced by thousands of genuine licensed Vista users who one day could no longer use their WGA restricted crippled systems.

Microsoft are the most backward corporate money grabbing up themselves entity ever to exist...yours faithfully...a .NET developer.

[beercohol]

Hmm. If I was Microsoft, I'd shut down every installation of every M$ product on every machine in the world in one instant. Oh yes I could! I'd call the, as yet undocumented, deactivateLicence() function and watch it disseminate throughout the whole M$ products installed base internationally.

That would teach them sandle-wearing liberal os-ending-in-ux hippies to meddle.

Of course, my machine would be safe... because I am a....

But I wouldnt be safe for long. My Red Hat box doesn't run without electricity - currently directed to me by cascading networks of chattering, giggling, beautiful shiny american Microsoft software.

What else would stop working?

[TheRefactornator]

cack

"sketchy versions of tech documentation for core software code"
Perhaps now after 20 years I'll at last be able to get my mouse.sys and keyboard.sys to load into less than 64k of RAM and have enough left to run edlin.