On February 28, MicrosoftR will disable Internet activation for all
Microsoft WindowsR XP product keys located on the Certificates of
Authenticity (COA) labels distributed by large, multinational OEMs.
Direct OEMs of Microsoft (large multinational OEMs that that have a direct
signed license agreement with Microsoft) usually preinstall Windows
software using System Lock Preinstall (SLP), which is a direct OEM's
method of legitimately bypassing Product Activation on behalf of their
customers.
One form of piracy occurs when Product Keys are stolen from Certificates
of Authenticity (COAs) that have been placed on direct OEM machines where
the Windows software was preinstalled using SLP. Pirates take the Product
Key from these COAs and sell them to resellers or customers who then use
them to activate a hard disk loaded copy of Windows.
To reduce the illegal trafficking of these OEM product keys Microsoft will
"disable" the ability to activate these direct OEM Product Keys over the
Internet. When a customer or reseller tries to activate using a Product
Key found on the list of "disabled" Keys, the online product activation
wizard will instruct them to call Microsoft where a customer service
representative can assist them further. Call center operators receiving
these calls will only issue an override key to customers who correctly
answer a series of questions which manually verify them as legitimate.
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Received on Thu Feb 24 12:25:20 2005
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