FiberWolfPremium
join:2002-05-24
Morristown, TN | Can my family sue Microsoft if i DIE? oK..
Hypothetical situation.
I am in the hospital hooked up to some type of life support running windows xp. Do not laugh, I was in the hospital a couple of weeks ago and the machine I was hooked up to was running XP. (I was not on a life support system though)
WGA comes along and cuts my machine off because it thinks it is not legit. What recourse do we have?
Scares the crap out of me.. |
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Ikarasu
join:2004-01-09
Port Coquitlam, BC | I imagine hospitals have OEM licenses, which dont need WGA, so it wouldn't have been affected. This situation pretty much only hurt Home users, not companies. |
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 sivranBack to Opera againPremium
join:2003-09-15
Arlington, TX
kudos:1 | And even then it only hurt people with legitimate copies. |
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Ikarasu
join:2004-01-09
Port Coquitlam, BC Reviews:
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| My PC came with windows XP. Funny thing is, I use a downloaded copy everytime. WGA sucks, and TBH, I dont have to deal with half of the issues Retail copied users do.
I got tired of having to call in everytime I switched a few pieces of hardware around. Now, I'm free to do as I wish  |
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 quetwoThat VoIP GuyPremium
join:2004-09-04
East Lansing, MI | reply to FiberWolf
Microsoft Windows XP and Vista are not licensed for "Life-Dependancy Applications".
The WindowsCE code-base has some exceptions for that  |
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davePremium,MVM
join:2000-05-04
not in ohio
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said by FiberWolf:I am in the hospital hooked up to some type of life support running windows xp. Right. Because it would be a totally sane idea to allow a life-critical system to update itself from the Internet at some random time, without rigorous testing of the changes. Medical equipment designers surely permit that sort of thing all the time.
You recourse: sue the designers of that equipment for reckless endangerment. |
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 sfromsf
join:2001-03-03
Sacramento, CA | reply to FiberWolf
The machines deemed clinical, affecting direct patient care are purpose built. They have no network or internet access.
Any updates, AV, MS or application are thoroughly tested with FDA over sight.
We also have volume licensing and do not allow WGA on our systems. |
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 jtudorXm 60's On 6 FreakPremium,MVM
join:2002-12-07
Morganton, NC | reply to Ikarasu
said by Ikarasu:I imagine hospitals have OEM licenses, which don't need WGA, so it wouldn't have been affected. This situation pretty much only hurt Home users, not companies. That is not necessarily true. My company has over 7000 pc's at multiple locations, and while all of them come with an OEM license, we are not using them.
As soon as we get a new PC, we use SMS to deploy a corporate standard image onto it, using a license from our enterprise license pool.
I suspect that we aer not the only business to do this, and that we are probably in the majority, so saying that businesses have OEM licenses and this does not affect them may not be totally correct.
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Best of luck
"Do, or Do not, there is no try!" Yoda
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sfromsf
join:2001-03-03
Sacramento, CA | jtudor - I suspect that this is true with most enterprises. |
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said by jtudor:said by Ikarasu:I imagine hospitals have OEM licenses, which don't need WGA, so it wouldn't have been affected. This situation pretty much only hurt Home users, not companies. That is not necessarily true. My company has over 7000 pc's at multiple locations, and while all of them come with an OEM license, we are not using them. As soon as we get a new PC, we use SMS to deploy a corporate standard image onto it, using a license from our enterprise license pool. I suspect that we aer not the only business to do this, and that we are probably in the majority, so saying that businesses have OEM licenses and this does not affect them may not be totally correct. We have been doing this long before win 2k. Thats old school. What company would want there own tech's to do clean installs on each computer they setup. And wait hours for updates ect...
We just used a network boot disk and downloaded the image from our central server and all computers were the same Compaq same crap so it was easy.
When an employee screwed up and got a virus, we just cloned there computer back to the original image. It was covered under a license that they purchased 300 user or more. So if someone did stop buy asking which never happened all we had to do is just show our license and if they wanted to count the pc's we had.
To do otherwise is insane if your a corp or even a small business with 10 or more employees.
Home users have time on there hands.
But XP system restore is a joke. I prefer a product like Norton Ghost, it does a good job. Keeps all headaches at bay. |
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