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To: Thomas Mercer-Hursh who wrote (49470)	12/13/2001 10:12:45 PM
From: Jurgis Bekepuris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

>>The Beast is busily addressing this by "your license >>to this product is only valid for 3...2...1...0.5 year" >>licensing >Which, I think, is one of the things that will slow people >moving to newer versions where this is implemented. Agreed. For example, I am not upgrading to XP, partially because of that, partially because I am not sure if my old games will run on XP. ;-) However, businesses - as far as I know - don't have such choice. They bought the licences for previous versions and will lose them or at least their support if they do not renew. I am not totally clear on this - somebody may know more exact info. Then it also will become a game of whether MSFT will force enough software companies to write XP-only software, forcing the upgrades. Finally, a lot of people may not realize what they are buying, i.e. that the software will expire. Jurgis - the ways of the devil are many...