[lbo-talk] Windows question

[Bob Morris]

* *I would assume it phones home. Checking the network couldn't work -
there's too many computers out there plus they might be offline any way.
Phoning home would just look up the serial number in a database. Much
quicker.

On Nov 7, 2007 9:51 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> So you techies out there, what's the story with Windows (specifically XP)
> serial numbers? Does it "phone home" to see if the s/n's been used already?
> Does it check on a network to see if there are dupes of the s/n in use?