This post is aimed at anyone attending the interLUG BBQ on Sat 17.
I’m sure you all have read about the latest & greatest way Microsoft has of spying on us & pretty much continuing to rule the world as our not-so-secret shadow government. Good ‘ol “Windows Genuine Advantage” (where do they get these spin artists?) is calling home & making sure we’re all doing what Bill wants.
Well, I have a dual-boot machine for the occasional XP app that I need to use. I have three valid XP Home Edition keys taped to the bottom of my machines but I no longer have any valid XP Home Install media. When I installed XP I used a friends install CD and then realized my Home licenses wouldn’t work for his Pro CD, so I used a borrowed key. Now I have very regular nag screens telling me I’m a pirate and will end up as Ballmers prison-bitch in hell unless I buy a “geniuine” copy of XP.
If anyone has an XP Home Install CD that I could use I would appreciate it. Again, I have valid keys, just no CD.
…back to look for replacement OSS apps so I can drop this cancer like a bad habit.
Have you actually read the License Agreement for Windows XP Home?
If not, you should. I’m sure that after you do, you will eradicate XP Home from your systems.
The reason why I think that is because of the clauses in there that basically say the same thing that the EULA for Office XP did; by installing Office XP, Microsoft owns every piece of information you ever write with any Office app or plugin or whatever and they have the right to download those files from your systems and use the information for any purposes they see fit, including impersonating you to other third parties.
The only difference with Windows XP is that Microsoft gets ownership of any piece of data you ever store on your system. They have the explicit right, according to the license agreement, to utilize your personal information.
Of course, they couldn’t get away with such clauses in their corporate editions, so XP Professional and the corporate deployment versions of Office XP (and, as I understand it, Office XP) do not have those clauses, either.
But, to answer your question, “Sorry, I do not have any XP Home discs, even though I do have a couple of licenses that came with notebooks I own, but I never let XP Home run at all.”