Microsoft to offer code protection, validation to other software developers
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| Microsoft is encouraging developers to take the next step, and do not just
| activation, but also Genuine Advantage-style validation. But the new SLP
| offerings are not “Genuine Advantage” for third parties, Lindeman said.
|
| “We are encouraging ISVs to think about doing validation like we do with
| Genuine Advantage. They can do that or their own thing,” Lindeman said.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=575
I'm sure that DEVELO~1 DEVELO~1 DEVELO~1 will really love that sort of stuff.
Can you blame Windows developers for rapidly defecting to Linux?
Related:
Windows Genuine Annoyance
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| My windows Genuine Advantage experience, which doesn't provide
| any discernible advantage to anyone but Microsoft, hit a new
| low today.
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http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2007/04/windows_genuine.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_techbeat
http://tinyurl.com/3dy86d
Windows Genuine Advantage - what a pain
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| One of the Trojans appears to have corrupted the registry of the
| PC to such an extent that Windows Genuine Advantage thinks the
| version of Windows on his machine is pirated.
|
| It's not, but perhaps worse, a number of other applications,
| including AVG Anti-Virus are also blocking updates until the
| copy of Windows is made legitimate.
|
| I think a complete re-install of the operating system is
| called for, as patching around the problem seems to be impossible.
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http://securityblog.itproportal.com/?p=655
MS to OEMs: Get legit on Vista, or the OS is toast
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| It gets worse. Microsoft offers OEMs a chance to "win a cool PC" by
| taking a quiz testing their knowledge of Windows Vista and WGA. But
| it doesn't exactly instill confidence when you type the URL into your
| browser and find out the page doesn't exist.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/robertxcringely/archives/2007/06/microsoft_to_oe.html
Cancelling WGA Installation sends a report to Microsoft
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| They decided to cancel the installation and immediately after doing
| so the firewall reported that update.exe tried to connect to the
| internet. This caught their attention of course and they decided
| to analyze the data that was send after the connection was established.
|
| They used Wireshark to analyze the traffic and found out that
| update.exe sends data to genuine.microsoft.com. Some of the data
| seems to be encrypted while some could be identified. It sends
| registry information, namely the SusClientID as well as information
| about the version of the WGA tool, the windows version and the
| language of the operating system. It also sets a cookie whichc
| ontains a GUID which could possibly be used to identify the computer.
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http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=38614
Survey: Windows loses ground with developers
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| Linux gaining share as the number of developers targeting Windows falls
| 12 percent, Evans Data says
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/07/02/mswindows-share_1.html
Developers Embrace Java, Drop Visual Basic
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| Use of Visual Basic has dropped 35% since the spring, says a
| poll of more than 430 North American developers done by research
| company Evans Data.
|
| [...]
|
| Developers have abandoned Microsoft's Visual Basic in droves
| during the last six months, and they're using Java more than any
| other development language, according to a recently published
| survey.
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http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196600515
Study: Developers Favor Linux
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| "Regardless of what kind of developer you are, you're still trying to
| make a living, and target the operating system that?s controlling the
| market."
|
| However, in the most recent survey, the developers' forecast of their
| target platform has changed. For the first time, these developers said
| that in the next 12 to 18 months they expect to be developing more Linux
| apps than Windows apps.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3645766
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