Banksy's Limitless limited by Windows Activation

Bork!Bork!Bork! Today's Bork comes courtesy of an exhibition dedicated to the UK street artist Banksy and demonstrates that "Limitless" does not always apply to Windows Activation.

A number of Register readers ventured to an exhibition devoted to the artist in London's South Kensington and, among the exhibits, came across some touchscreens inviting further investigation of the artist's work.

However, the interactive screens are running Windows, and Windows is doing what Windows does best: displaying an awkward message. We suspect it's what the artist, famed for subversive and satirical artwork cropping up in the most unexpected of places, would have wanted.

Windows complaining about activation can occur if there are licensing issues, or if there has been a hardware change that is enough to send Microsoft's finest into a cycle of despair. Responding to the request of the operating system to dive into the ...