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[Doc Shipley]

Jules Richardson wrote:
> Roger Merchberger wrote:
> 
>> I'm not saying there *weren't* Win95 versions (read: corporate) that 
>> didn't need a CD-Key, but *every* one I ever worked with did, and I 
>> worked with a lot of copies of Win95 very early on, from a lot of OEMs 
>> and copies purchased straight from M$.
> 
> 
> Indeed - ISTR the numbers being somewhat interchangeable though. One CD 
> key would happily work with a Win95 CD that was shipped with a different 
> key, which always seemed a little pointless.
> 
> Hmm actually, was it Win95 where the entry of the key was optional and 
> hitting escape just let you skip past it (with all the legal issues that 
> created)? Maybe that was a different bit of MS software with a CD key at 
> around the same time though...

   I think that was WFW3.11.  If you could do it with W95 I never 
figured out how.

   Not that I ever tried, or anything....  ;^)


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