Ahoy, matey! Vista's registration features pwned |
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There are two sides to this story. On one end, you've really got to give it to those guys who have managed to hack Windows Vista's registration features even before the said OS has been released. You guys are geniuses. On the other hand, Microsoft should really start waking up and start hiring the said hackers instead; then maybe they wouldn't have to worry about piracy so much, especially when Vista gets launched on January 30, 2007.That's right, kiddies, you heard us right. As reported by the IDG News Service, Windows Vista's registration features have already been hacked, and a file is already being distributed which allows users of the corporate version of Vista to dodge those anti-piracy traps which Microsoft has painstakingly put into place.
Dubbed as the "MelindaGates Hack", it goes around the need for Windows Vista to be "activated" before it will work on your machine... and... well, at this point, Yahoo explains the technical
parts best:
To simplify the task of activating many copies of Vista, Microsoft offers corporate users special tools, among them Key Management Service (KMS), which allows a company to run a Microsoft-supplied authorization server on its own network and activate Vista without contacting Microsoft for each copy.
The software Microsoft.Windows.Vista.Local.Activation.Server-MelindaGates lets users spoof that KMS process, allowing them to activate copies of the enterprise editions of Vista, its creators say.
So... Can anyone say "Polly wants a cracker"?
Via Yahoo News
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yes microsoft gets pwned yet again. thanx for the news i will try this with my pc.
Erm you may think you have won , but in the long run Microsoft will beat you. You will only be able to use Vista for a few more months then BAM!.
I smell a race between programmers, sort of like the one happening between Sony's FW and homebrew devs.
Meagara i know where you live and the Microsoft Corp is gonna sue you , im very sorry to say this but you smell of shiz.
the next time you try to insult someone, learn to spell first and check your grammar, 'kay?
had 2 look it up m8!!!!!! guess your to blame!!!!!? vista crack? psp next?
meagara what has spelling got to do with anything. you still smell of shiz.
Microsoft make little money from the home users. Business users on the other hand are forced to have legit copies of Windows in their work place. In fact, in Canada we have had our business checked for illegal software.
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