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To: Joe Lyddon who wrote (30105)	11/8/2002 6:08:42 PM
From: Fargonaut	Read Replies (1) of 110653

With XP (but not with W2000 SP2) Microsoft is trying to figure out a way to keep you from installing the OS on more than one machine. If you change the hard disk, the video board, the printer and the mouse, you're ok. But if you make too many more hardware changes, or go to a totally different machine, they won't allow you to run that copy of the OS any more. SP's are a good thing: they contain driver updates, compatibility tweaks, security fixes etc. But SP3 for W2000 also contains this "chaperone" feature which I don't like. By the way, W2000 is not a new OS, it is basically NT5.0 which is an extension of their business software. F

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