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
They are driving away people to Linux because they got greedy (for more
cash).
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
Microsoft Exec Admits That Company Benefits From Piracy
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| Jeff Raikes, head of the company's business group, said at a
| recent investor conference that while the company is against
| piracy, if you are going to pirate software, it hopes you pirate
| Microsoft software. He cited the above reasoning, noting that
| users of pirated Microsoft software are likely to purchase from
| the company later on.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20070312/165448.shtml
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
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