In article ,
Mark Lloyd wrote:

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:32:39 -0700, "Jim McLaughlin" jim.mclaughlin
wrote:

Lots of folks have no use for XP.


I started avoiding XP before if became available, when I heard about
the "product activation" unfeature which gives MS ultimate control
over your OS. I never wanted to get dependant on such a thing.

FWIW, this "feature" was one of the main reasons I finally got around
to switching to an Apple. The tentacles of Redmond were just too deeply
imbedded in my machine to make me happy.