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To: Win Smith who wrote (24129)	10/19/2001 8:02:34 AM
From: Harvey Allen	Read Replies (1) of 24154

Day 3 Competition: Ultimate challenge to AOL A cornerstone of .Net My Services is an authentication key called Passport, a kind of universal identification tool. It allows people to sign in to multiple sites with the same password and store such personal information as credit card numbers for online purchases at stores that agree to use Microsoft's security technology. "Passport represents a critical control point of the Internet of the future, the place where identity will be managed on the Internet," said David Smith, a Gartner analyst. "Identity leads to all kinds of information about people. It's the keys to the candy store." news.cnet.com Reading this I realize that Win2000 might be the last Mirosoft-free OS. I can achieve all the functionality of Win XP by updating to Win2000 Service Pack 2 and then downloading Explorer 6 and Media Player 7. All I miss is some eye candy but then I don't have to mess with Window's Product Activation. I haven't been able to get around WPA so ended up paying for two 180 day WinXP product keys. $9.95 each, charged to your credot card only after you WPA. Win2000 is also free of all the hooks placed in XP. Harvey

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