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how are anand and other sites going to test computers when xp is the norm?

They'll probably be issued corporate editions of XP so they don't have to bother with the activation.
 
As long as the testing is completed within 14 days after install on any particular machine it should not present a problem ... right? It doesn't limit the amount of installs until it is registered or that 14 day clock runs out.

What I hate is that I should be able to have the same OS on both my notebook and my home PC which are never used at the same time and therefore should constitute only one user. 😛
 
I swap hardware in and out of my systems a lot,this whole "activation" things looks like a real PITA, I gotta call MS whenever I swap in a new mb/cpu combo ?
 
Linux, c'mon!!! We need a good DirectX emulator for Linux. This Activation junk is just going to lose MS business...wait, is that really a bad thing? 🙂
 
There was similiar product activation in a copy of Office 2000 I used to have. After 40 runs you were forced to activate it by phone or the net. Well with the number of windows reinstallations I go through I had to reinstall on occasion. After 2 succesful internet activations it blocked me the third time. I called to activate it by phone and they said that I couldn't activate it again because it was already installed on two other computers. That really ticked me off (having purchased the software) so I was forced to activate it by other means.
 
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