Vista SP1 kills the WGA kill switch

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Microsoft's anti-piracy system known (and loathed) as Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) is set to lose its bite. When Vista SP1 launches in early 2008, WGA will still identify -- ad-nauseam -- what it thinks to be non-legal copies of Vista. However, it will lose its ability to disable said systems.

The change was announced in a presentation by WGA senior product manger, Alex Kochis, who said, "Based on customer feedback, we will not reduce user functionality on systems determined to be non-genuine." That should bring a swift end to WGA customer complaints related to false-positives, spyware concerns, or server glitches. Score one point for law-abiding citizens everywhere.

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naveen_reloaded

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Wow good...now it will be more easy for hacker to get a crack....
It should have been stiff,but eventually will lead to less vista usage,inturn will favor for linux...

Let see how this move works.
 
infra_red_dude

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patelpk said:
I think within days they (hAcKeRs) will found how to bypass this :)
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And why does anyone need to "hack" into this? All it does is sit in the tray and notify the user about non-legit copy of windows. With simple changes the notification can be turned off!

Hmmm... I dunno why but I think MS is feeling the heat of slowly losing its loyalists to Mac and OSS! First WGA-less IE7, now this... next what, MS?
 
The_Devil_Himself

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die blizzard die! D3?
yea M$ feeling the heat.The world is changing and M$ aint loving it a bit.

Now unethical\clever steps are coming like crippled WGA(read windows piracy is supported officially by M$ now),providing crippled versions of XP to low cost PCs to be sold in poor countries to make sure they do know what is Windows\M$ and not just ubuntu\linux.
 
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The_Devil_Himself said:
Now unethical\clever steps are coming like crippled WGA(read windows piracy is supported officially by M$ now),providing crippled versions of XP to low cost PCs to be sold in poor countries to make sure they do know what is Windows\M$ and not just ubuntu\linux.
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Offtopic: You seem to be obsessed with the way MS uses the folder addressing in its OS :D

That slash is usually not used there! (I mebbe wrong, tho :) )
 
The_Devil_Himself

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die blizzard die! D3?
Lol dunno but it is prolly more duo to the fact that the other slash(/) is far from the main keys.lol.Or maybe that slash means division to me.Not sure.But sure enough its not due to windows cos I am on a complete ubuntu install for quite sometime.My Zune which syncs to PC only through a windows exclusive software(thanks M$) is nothing more than a super expensive FM receiver as of now.LOL.WIll have to install XP soon enough to sync more music+movies.
 
naveen_reloaded

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If ms losses one loyalty they will get two new ones.so no chi deal.it will take some more years to linux to get a good hold..but still ms rocks.
 
infra_red_dude

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Kenshin said:
In case of Vista ....the system goes into restricted use...only IE7 is available to use if the OS is not genuine..
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Thats what I said in the prev. post; this new version only notifies of non-legit copy, so problems :)
 
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