I've not heard of that, and even if it were 10 yrs old, it would be a PR 
nightmare for them, not that Balmer wouldn't want to try it...

The only connection they have is through updates, which they will discontinue 
for unsupported OSes, so how would they accomplish this turn-off? Day n-1 they 
are supporting XP and the updates are legitimate and non-malicious. Day n they 
stop support and you quit dialing them up. How do they turn you off on day n+1?

Staying reasonably behind on installing (but maybe just downloading) updates as 
a lot of people do would create a big noise as people's systems started 
stopping and alert the rest of us. Then there would be some action taken...


William "Chops" Westfield wrote:
> On Mar 7, 2008, at 2:57 AM, Alan B. Pearce wrote:
> 
> 
> And after that, I believe it's within the XP license agreement
> that they can "turn off" operation of current XP licenses. :-(
> 
> BillW
> 
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