Day: 22 August 2004
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What If Windows 98 Had Activation?
Or: Yet Another Reason Why 'Activation' Is Bad
There are already loads of articles out there explaining why 'product activation', which made it's first appearance in a piece of Microsoft software in their release of Windows XP, is a bad thing. Product activation, which you may already have experienced, works by making a 'fingerprint' of the …