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Comment Re:Marketing Failure (Score 3, Interesting) 199

My guess is businesses will continue to use WSUS to manage the rollout and testing of updates, without the hassle of major version updates.

It's not really any different from what happens with regular updates now, except some of them will add new features, like Service Pack's currently do.

Smaller updates has got to be better than major version updates, otherwise there wouldn't be millions of Windows XP machines still out there.

Sounds like a much better option than what has been done in the past.

Comment Re:Contact the EFF (Score 1) 87

The smarts are stored on the key.
smarts like the time a user is allowed to use the key and if it has expired or not.
They also read in the logs from the lock and update it's key black-list.

The key gets sync'd to control software, which can go over the internet.

The integrity of the entire system is reliant on the keys, that they can't be modified or copied.

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