[MS] Clarifying SP2 piracy policy.

Clarifying SP2 piracy policy.
http://forums.winxpcentral.com/showthread.php?t985


From the Windows XP2 News Group. I am going to post the entire MS
Statement here and then reference the link.

There have been a number of discussions on this newsgroup regarding
whether SP2 will install on non-genuine (aka "pirated") versions of
Windows. Here is the official Microsoft position on this topic:

We expect that nearly all Windows XP users, running genuine or pirated
Windows, will have access to the security technologies in SP2. The
same users that were blocked from installing SP1 - those that have
used a small set of legacy pirated product keys - will be blocked from
installing SP2. We believe that there are very few systems in use
today that use these keys -- in other words, the pirates have moved on
to other keys which we are not blocking.

So how do we charaterize our policy?

We want to make sure that the broadest number of people can install
SP2. The nature of malicious attacks on computer users is constantly
changing and we will continue to evaluate how we deal with security
updates for pirated versions of Windows to best protect our genuine
Windows customers.

Thanks,

Gary Schare
Microsoft
http://communities.microsoft.com/ne...geNumber=1
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