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I got this as a email and I'm passing it along.

OK, like the "Genuine Authentication Tool" in XP SP3 did. When I was at the MVP Tech Ed seminar last year, MS said they were going to do this. Fine by me, my Win 7 is already authenticated and registered.

Funny, tho. They never bothered with Vista.

My copies are OK too just letting people know that have those copies what is coming at them. Yes they did with Vista it was in the sp1. This is from Microsoft:

While we have seen success with our implementation in Windows Vista, as evident from the lower levels of piracy, we also knew we could do better in Windows 7. For example, with Windows Vista Service Pack 1, if a PC was not activated during the login process, customers would periodically see a dialog box as a visual reminder they still needed to activate their copy of Windows. Within this prompt, they could choose to activate immediately or later. But the option to push the “activate later” button was grayed out for 15 seconds. Customers told us that while the prompt grabbed their attention, they didn’t understand why they needed to activate immediately and that the delay was annoying. In Windows 7 we modified this process: When customers choose to activate later they will see a dialog box highlighting how activation helps them identify if their copy of Windows is genuine and be allowed to proceed immediately without a 15-second delay. In Windows 7 we’ve made changes so that users will see more informative notifications messages and be able to more easily complete the tasks they need to.

part of this might be in some kind of confusion too-

from the start- people was like can i do a clean install or does it have to be a upgrade install-- it was a way to bypass the key code or something so they could do a fresh full retail install and register it later or something..

but too. i do think some have high jacked keys for all the windows versions.. i have no probs with the validation system-- them dishonest have to worry. not us honest folks.. but many trying to do the retail install have legit w7- its just they was trying to do a better install- and it was said ms shipped full version w7 in the upgrade boxes so..