kcredden
October 9th, 2006, 01:54 PM
As readers know, I've been keeping up on the WGA fiasco that MS did with XP. More info has emerged about this. MS wines about 'Software piracy is not a victimless crime, well what about being accused of a crime, and forced to pay a fine, for something you didn't do?
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Microsoft: ‘Software piracy is not a victimless crime’ Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 5:37 pm
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I tend to restrict my blogging here to hardware related matters, but I feel compelled to comment on the latest twists in the Windows Genuine Advantage saga.
This latest twist is the announcement that Windows Vista is to have technology similar to WGA "hard baked" into it. This announcement came today via Microsoft PressPass in the form of a press release announcing Software Protection Platform (http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2006/oct06/10-04SoftwareProtection.mspx) (shortened to SPP). (Don't know what SPP is? Just think of it as WGA 2.0.) The press release takes on the format of a faux Q&A session with Cori Hartje, Director, Microsoft Genuine Software Initiative.
more here (http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=111)
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More and more I read, the better linux and the MacOS looks to me.
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Microsoft: ‘Software piracy is not a victimless crime’ Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 5:37 pm
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I tend to restrict my blogging here to hardware related matters, but I feel compelled to comment on the latest twists in the Windows Genuine Advantage saga.
This latest twist is the announcement that Windows Vista is to have technology similar to WGA "hard baked" into it. This announcement came today via Microsoft PressPass in the form of a press release announcing Software Protection Platform (http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2006/oct06/10-04SoftwareProtection.mspx) (shortened to SPP). (Don't know what SPP is? Just think of it as WGA 2.0.) The press release takes on the format of a faux Q&A session with Cori Hartje, Director, Microsoft Genuine Software Initiative.
more here (http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=111)
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More and more I read, the better linux and the MacOS looks to me.