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- KB940510 highlights some counterfeit Windows installations
- Yesterday Microsoft released a new update for Windows Vista - KB940510. This update, when installed, will detect certain software used to bypass Windows product activation. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: KB940510, screenshots, counterfeit, Windows, vista, wga
- Image galleries 2008-02-27
- Vista Loader - Working Vista SP1 activation hack
- SP1 was supposed to make life tougher for pirates - it doesn't. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: screenshots vista, sp1, hack, activation, wga
- Image galleries 2008-02-12
- Updates WGA in SP1
- See how SP1 changes the face of Windows Genuine Advantage WGA. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: screenshots, Windows, Vista, SP1, WGA, genuine, piracy
- Image galleries 2008-02-11
- WGA notches win for Microsoft in piracy bust
- Microsoft's anti-piracy effort may be annoying to some Windows users, but it has notched a big win catching the bad guys. On Tuesday, Microsoft announced that the FBI and Chinese Public Security Bureau busted a syndicate selling and distributing more than $2 billion in counterfeit Microsoft software. The WGA's role...
- Tags: Legal, General, Microsoft, Vista
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- Microsoft to offer code protection, validation to other software developers
- Microsoft is planning to deliver on October 1 to third-party software developers a set of technologies that will allow them to add code protection and activation mechanisms to their own software.When Microsoft first unveiled its "Genuine Software" initiative three years ago, company officials said they planned to license to third...
- Tags: WGA, OGA, Anti-piracy, Activation
- Blog posts 2007-07-13
- WGA - The "A" stands for Advertisments
- Just when you think that WGA cant possibly get any worse, it suddenly does.As you probably already know, Im no fan of WGA, but when Microsoft turns this anti-piracy tool into a marketing stream, somethings gone seriously wrong somewhere.Stephen Wildstrom, a writer for BusinessWeek, documents his experience with WGA.My windows...
- Tags: Thoughts, Software, Microsoft, DRM
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- Thoughts on the BIOS emulation crack for Vista
- A number of people have asked me about the BIOS emulation crack for Vista that allows the proper activation channels to be bypassed. Heres my take on this latest crack attack.First off, I have to say that this is one clever crack. I mean, extracting the OEM certificates...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), BIOS, Microsoft Corp., WGA, OEM, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2007-03-13
- A WGA success story
- I’ve spent this week in Arizona visiting old friends, some of whom are also clients. So, naturally, I did a fair amount of PC maintenance over the course of the week, usually just before cocktail hour. In the process of one such visit, I got a firsthand look at Microsoft’s...
- Tags: CompUSA Inc., Microsoft Windows, Sam, Dell Computer Corp., PC, disk
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- Vista WGA problems confirmed
- This morning I reported on Vista activation and validation problems Ive been hearing and reading about in the last few weeks. This afternoon I have a firsthand report.When I installed a beta version of Acclaims 9Dragons role-playing game (protected, apparently, by nProtects GameGuard anti-cheating software), Vista dropped a bomb on...
- Tags: WGA, Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
- Problems arise with Vista's validation
- Last year, when Microsoft announced a new anti-piracy infrastructure for Windows Vista, I was skeptical. Heres what I wrote at the time:Whats most distressing about the SPP announcement is Microsofts continued insistence that its anti-piracy tools are nearly perfect and that innocent victims never suffer from errors in their code....
- Tags: WGA, Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
- News to know: 10 years of blogging; Metaspoit; Son of WGA
- Notable headlines: Dan Farber: Reflections on the first decade of blogging.UMBC eBiquity: The I’s of the Blogosphere.Ryan Naraine: Hacking with Metasploit on a Nokia N800 right. eEye spies first MS Office 2007 remote exploit. Mozilla zaps Firefox security bugs.WSJ: Tech Giants to Unveil Power-Usage Plan.NY Times: Google in Content Deal...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
- A brief history of anti-piracy at Microsoft
- I’m revisiting Microsoft’s Genuine Advantage program this week, in light of the introduction of a new WGA Notifications tool for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. (Microsoft’s official description is here; the download page is here.) As background, I thought it might be interesting to post a brief history of...
- Tags: Microsoft, WGA, Licensing
- Blog posts 2007-02-24
- Son of WGA
- Earlier this week, Microsoft announced it was about to release an update to its Windows Genuine Notifications software. I just checked Windows Update on a machine running Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 and found this waiting for me: Last summers WGA release was a horror show; will this...
- Tags: Windows Vista, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-02-23
- Ballmer's list: Microsoft's CEO shares his top nine Microsoft growth picks
- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has come up with a list of the nine "opportunities" where he believes Microsoft can sustain a half billion or more in new margin growth over the next three years. On February 15, Ballmer shared that list with Wall Street analysts and shareholders who participated...
- Tags: Anti-piracy, Corporate strategy, Office, Office Live, OGA, SQL Server, WGA, Windows client, Windows Live, Windows Mobile, Windows server, Xbox, Zune
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- Microsoft back ports license-management system to Windows Server 2003
- As Microsoft promised late last year, the company has ported some of its volume-activation technology to Windows Server 2003. Microsoft has made available for download 32- and 64-bit versions of its Key Management Service for Windows Server 2003 Service Pack SP 1 systems, as noted on the Windows...
- Tags: Vista, Windows Server Longhorn, Windows server, Anti-piracy, WGA, Activation, Virtualization
- Blog posts 2007-02-13
- Did Microsoft flags 500,000 innocent Windows users as pirates?
- Is WGA Windows Genuine Advantage so flawed that it has caused Microsoft to flag over half a million genuine Windows users as pirates?An article on InformationWeek does the math on the statistics released the other day by Microsoft relating to WGA and comes up with a figure for the number...
- Tags: DRM, Microsoft, Microsoft Corp., WGA, WINDOWS USERS
- Blog posts 2007-01-24
- What if users could have Windows their way?
- How much would you pay Microsoft for a port of its BitLocker drive encryption -- a technology slated to be available only to Vista Enterprise and Vista Ultimate users -- that could run on the Vista Business SKU? Or on Windows XP, for that matter? This might not be...
- Tags: Vista, Windows client, Windows Live, Corporate strategy, WGA, Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, BitLocker Drive Encryption
- Blog posts 2007-01-22
- Genuine Advantage: Can Microsoft recast itself as protector, not punisher?
- I wouldnt want Cori Hartjes job. She is the head of Microsofts much-maligned Genuine Software Initiative -- the team responsible for implementing Windows Genuine Advantage and Office Genuine Advantage. Hartje was on a cross-country press tour last week. Microsoft has no new Genuine Advantage lockdowns to announce as...
- Tags: Vista, Windows client, Office, Office 2007, Anti-piracy, WGA, OGA, Activation, Microsoft Corp., Microsofts, software
- Blog posts 2007-01-22
- News to know: WGA; Gates blogger fest; Core wars
- Afternoon happenings of note:Can Microsoft stay a step ahead of the Vista pirates? Mary Jo Foley revisits the dreaded WGA issue. Microsofts target: Frankenbuilds.Ryan Stewart on Microsofts blogger fest. More observations at Techmeme.ZDNetters are debating the merits of AMDs Core Wars a mistake comments.LinkedIn co-founder quits, joins Jaxtr.David Berlinds Testbed:...
- Tags: WGA, Microsofts, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-14
- Can Microsoft stay a step ahead of the Vista pirates?
- This week, Microsoft began making available to select Windows Vista users an update to Vista that is aimed at thwarting downloaders who are circumventing Vistas build-in product activation. But is Microsofts solution going to do much to stop the so-called "frankenbuilds" that combine combining test versions of Vista with the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Activation, Windows XP, WGA, Anti-piracy, Windows client, Vista
- Blog posts 2006-12-14
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