This is not going to help MS at all.

Since what you are buying is the license, all anyone has to do is find
someone with a full cd and burn a copy (cd writers are so common now). I
believe this would still be perfectly legal as you have the license.

All MS is going to accomplish here is to cause problems for the average user
who does not pirate software like Win2k anyway. The rest of us can easily
get around it.

Kind of like the mandatory registration with Office 2k SR1.


-----Original Message-----
From: COLE,GLENN (Non-HP-SantaClara,ex2) [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 2:36 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: OT: New PC? No CD.


InfoWorld's Ed Foster reports that as of April 1st:

   As an anti-piracy measure, Microsoft has quietly implemented a policy
   through which OEM hardware manufacturers who license Windows directly
   from Microsoft no longer ship a full backup CD of the OS with their
   systems. Instead, users receive one of two options for disaster
   recovery: a "recovery CD" that is locked into the type of system
   it's going to run on or a hard-drive-based approach where a "recovery
   image" of the OS can be loaded on a separate partition.

Glad they continue to innovate.

The full article is at:

   http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/00/05/01/000501opfoster.xml

--Glenn