Microsoft moves to block updates to pirated Windows
Correspondent:: "Modemac"
Date: 26 Jan 2005 10:05:05 -0800
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http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-01-26-microsoft_x.htm
"Microsoft Corp. says it plans to severely curtail the ways in which
people running pirated copies of its dominant Windows operating system
can receive software updates, including security fixes. Over the next
few months, the software behemoth said Tuesday it will begin to more
broadly adopt a program, called Windows Genuine Advantage, that urges
users to provide proof that their Windows copy is authentic before
receiving some software updates."
Correspondent:: "just john"
Date: 26 Jan 2005 11:37:21 -0800
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So this means that pirated Windows software systems will wind up being
safer than the approved ones.
Correspondent:: "nu-monet v7.0"
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 13:38:57 -0700
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Modemac wrote:
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In a better world than this one:
"Microsoft Corp. says it plans to severely curtail the
reasons for its dominant Windows operating system to
need to receive software updates, including security
fixes. Over the next few months, the software behemoth
said Tuesday it will begin to more broadly adopt a
program, called Windows With One Hell Of A Lot Fewer
Problems, that urges users to provide fixes so that
Windows isn't perforated with security holes, filled
with anti-user restrictions, hostile to third party
software and so generally buggy and prone to crashes."
--
"Pleasure me, Bill Gates!"
--James Mason, from the movie
'Mandingo the Penguin'
Correspondent:: Ued
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 00:38:10 -0500
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In article <1106762705.389615.88880@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
modemac@modemac.com says...
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> http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-01-26-microsoft_x.htm
>
> "Microsoft Corp. says it plans to severely curtail the ways in which
> people running pirated copies of its dominant Windows operating system
> can receive software updates, including security fixes. Over the next
> few months, the software behemoth said Tuesday it will begin to more
> broadly adopt a program, called Windows Genuine Advantage, that urges
> users to provide proof that their Windows copy is authentic before
> receiving some software updates."
First that "product activation" thing, and now this. I don't know why I
continue to use Windows, given that MS seems to always presume that
everybody is a pirate until they prove otherwise. I've got a nice
commercial Linux distro, and that company doesn't imply that I'm a
criminal or employ spy-like tactics to sneak around on my system to see
what's there.
Correspondent:: DrNerdware
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:28:34 +0000
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Modemac wrote:
> http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-01-26-microsoft_x.htm
>
> "Microsoft Corp. says it plans to severely curtail the ways in which
> people running pirated copies of its dominant Windows operating system
> can receive software updates, including security fixes. Over the next
> few months, the software behemoth said Tuesday it will begin to more
> broadly adopt a program, called Windows Genuine Advantage, that urges
> users to provide proof that their Windows copy is authentic before
> receiving some software updates."
Expect a rise in spam.