On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 22:40:59 -0700, Robert Baer
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On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 08:45:05 -0300, Shadow wrote:

On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 08:28:54 +0100, Ian Jackson
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In message , Robert Baer
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So far, I've not attempted to activate by phone (which, I understand, is
automated) - but at this stage in the game, would it make any
difference? Or have MS finally totally screwed up any possibility of
installing XP?
So far, i have never seen a peep about "activation" during or after
an install of XP.

Please explain! Don't all XP installations need to be activated?

If you purchased it, you can activate it with a freeware
called xpy. It changes a registry flag. Morally correct. I doubt M$
will try to sue you for activating something that BELONGS to you.

XP is not a "service", if you bought it, it's yours.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/xpy/files/xpy%20Redistributable/
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More importantly XP is an abandoned product. If microsoft thought it
was of value they would support it. I never saw an expiration date on
any microsoft product I bought when I bought it. Them killing it at
some arbitrary date in the future is fraud. I can understand not
supporting it but if they refuse to activate it for a paid up
customer, they are the ones in the wrong and a hack is just justice.

Well, then what about Win3.11, Win95, Win98, Win98SE, etc etc ad nauseum?

Everything before W/XP had no "activation" or hardware ID testing.
If you had a code that worked, you were good to go forever.
XP was the first one that had a defacto expiration date, the date they
would no longer activate it.