Re: Microsoft Registration Wizard

[Peter Graham <psgraham@syr.edu>]

The following provides insight into why critics of the Pentium III chip,
with its hardwired identifier, do not find acceptable the proposed Intel
solution of the default being not-implement.  As long as the capability is
there, a software vendor can require that a user change the default to
implement, thus hard-identifying a user on the net for all sorts of
purposes.  --pg

Ann Okerson wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 06:37:56 -0800
> From: JQ Johnson <jqj@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <cni-copyright@cni.org>
> Subject: Microsoft Registration Wizard
>
> Anyone following the interactions of copyright and shrinkwrap software
> licensing should be aware of plans by Microsoft for Office 2000.  My
> understanding (a bit hazy, since Microsoft hasn't released details) is
> that Microsoft is planning to include a "registration wizard" that you
> must run when you install the new version of Office (expected ship date:
> Q3 1999).  This wizard is designed to enforce the terms of the EULA (the
> Microsoft shrink wrap license).  I believe (but am not sure) that the plan
> is to have the wizard send hardware configuration information to
> Microsoft, and to disallow use of the software after the 50th startup
> unless registration was successful, to disallow reinstallation of the
> software if the hardware changes substantially, etc.
>
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