Microsoft Anti-Piracy Approach Evolves to Meet Ongoing Threat

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  1. NICK ADSL UK

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    Microsoft Anti-Piracy Approach Evolves to Meet Ongoing Threat

    REDMOND, Wash. Dec. 4, 2007 – As part of a comprehensive effort to address piracy of its products, Microsoft today announced that the company will increase efforts against piracy and outlined new steps being taken to protect Windows Vista from ongoing and known counterfeiting threats. The upcoming Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) will include updates that target and disable two types of known exploits to the Windows Vista activation process. Also, as part of SP1, the company is making changes in how it differentiates user experiences for genuine and counterfeit systems based on feedback from customers and partners.

    Continued here
    http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2007/dec07/12-03wga.mspx
     
    NICK ADSL UK, Dec 4, 2007
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    wow and after all they said about not caring about the few people that were getting vista this way... im sure the people that worked around the first one will find a way with this one as well..
     
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    Is this a nice way of saying that they will spy on their paying customers?
     
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    Counterfeiting Vista?? Just speaking for my locale, according to our local computer shop a huge number of people have dumped it and gone back to XP. The tech there has made good money removing Vista and reinstalling XP.

    Since Vista appeared, he says his day is evenly divided repairing computers and removing Vista from new boxes people bring in.
     
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