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So why, then, is it so important to Microsoft to stamp out piracy at all costs?

Because in some countries (such as asian ones), you can walk into street corner shops and buy a super-cheap copy of their products. In other words, pirates in Taiwan are making a living off of duplicating Microsoft CDs. That, to me, is a pretty good reason to try more advanced copy protection systems.

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P.S. I'm sticking with Windows 2000.

Today I was playing around with Windows Server 2003 for the first time, and I really like it compared to XP. Its default configurations are not nearly as irritating as the ones in XP, and it's got most if not all of the XP benefits.

Expensive, though...
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Tony Fabris