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Could someone please explain why the "Project Activation" section is here? It just seems to be a section explaining how the activation works to avoid illegals installations of XP. At no point does it explain or reference why this is a bad thing, and presumably therefore a criticisim. This topic seems to be covered better in the main Windows XP article, where it actually has some criticism of this method. Propose to delete the section from the article? 87.194.252.95 (talk) 22:10, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I merged the Criticism section of the main WinXP article into this article. Its a mess, but i didnt wrote this chunk. StoneProphet (talk) 15:25, 7 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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