A post on The Tech Report, have maybe revealed plans, that Microsoft wants to put product activation on Windows 2000.
A post on The Tech Report suggests that Microsoft just might be preparing to retro-fit XP's product activation to Win2k. According to the author, installation of the Internet Explorer 6 preview on a Win2k machine resulted in the addition of a new, suspicious-sounding registry key. |
The item appears as KEY_ LOCAL_ MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft MSLicensing, and there are two sub keys - HardwareID and Store. Says the author: 'Under the HardwareID key is a ClientHWID binary value entry, containing what I'll assume is a hash key generated off my system's hardware.
I guess it is Microsofts new hobby.
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Source: The Register
