"Andy [YaYa]" <android8675@MAPSONhotmail.com> wrote in message
news:eZHXm4RZIHA.1132@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> It was uploading your credit card and subscribing to various pronographic
> magazines.[/color]

Of course it was, even though I activated as soon as I installed, before any
of my personal stuff was even on the PC. Not that activation does that
anyway.
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> "Camera" <stevephotos******.com> wrote in message
> news:OI3s%23rRZIHA.5784@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> It did the same to me but I felt very unsafe. I didn't know what the os
>> was doing by linking to Microsoft.
>>
>> "Brian W" <brian.wescombeSODOFF@ntlSPAMworld.com> wrote in message
>> news:BaMoj.128$N53.67@newsfe1-win.ntli.net...[color=darkred]
>>> I did a new PC build today, with new HDD, graphics card, more memory
>>> (2GB instead of original 1GB), and new motherboard.
>>> I was expecting to have to do a phone activation, but internet
>>> activation worked.
>>>
>>> This was on an OEM System Builder key.
>>>
>>> Nice and hassle-free!
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