anwiii, I don't know if screenshots are able to make you believe this step from Microsoft is true.







You can see more of this stuffs and article here..
http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp...9720&sec=prodit
http://windowsobserver.com/gallery2/v/Wind...tage/?g2_page=2

This post has been edited by Inspiron: Apr 26 2006, 09:36 AM

As was to be expected a lot of legal users have problems with this "Windows is not genuine" crap... proof can be found here

Not noly that, but for all those running a pirated version, not even 24 hours after the release it took me less than 5 minutes to find an easy workaround. There already are different methods as can bee seen here or here. Of course I don't encourage pirating software but for all those who own a legal version of it and still get the annoying messages, those are workarounds until Microsft gets off their lazy derriers and fixes it...

Personally I haven't been affected(that's because I don't let Microsoft decide what updates go onto my computer), but a friend of mine has had the problems and I can see how annoying it is. My suggestion is turning of automatic dowload of the updates since letting Microsoft handle it is like letting a thieve install the alarm system of your house...not a good idea, as they have proven yet again... All they're doing is annoy their customers and the pirates, which MS is trying to go after, are rolling on the floor laughing. My congratulations to Microsoft: You managed to screw your customers over yet again!

This post has been edited by Blacklaser: Apr 27 2006, 02:34 PM

Huh.. so this is a real thing, eh?
From the screenies, I guess it's already going on.. but I haven't heard anyone complaining about it in the Electronic Cafe at school, so I guess it didn't hit very hard. I suppose anyone who is going to pirate windows would be smart enough to turn off the automatic updates.. and I'm sure there will be a billion work-arounds.

Windows software is just too expensive.. I guess you have to suck it up and buy it, if you dont want to use Linux.. but for people like my boyfriend and I, who are building, upgrading, and scrapping computers all the time.. switching out parts and wiping harddrives and stuff.. even going out and spending $200 on the OS software would cause a hassle, if we can't use it freely >.>
Thank god for Tux

It is about time Microsoft really got tuff on pirates, instead of putting up pathetic nag screens warning people. The way I see it, MS, should have a screen come up, locking users out of the operating system, and hard coding it into the OS.

Wow this is a new low even for Microsoft. I think this is kind of unfair for the people who run pirated Windows who bought it from some store and did not even know it was pirate. I do not see why it is fair to punish the innocent as well as the guilty. Almost all computer places install Windows on their computers and who knows if they give everyone a unique copy and they still bill you for it. In fact, I tell them I don't want Windows and buy my own copy in an unopened box.

Well well, what do we have here? A very bad attempt to counter act pirating buiseness it seems *shrug*. Why give them a friendly pop up? Better would be to disable their system completely, wouldn't it? But on the other hand, so many people seem to have errors with this little patch, if they would totally block your system it would mean disaster for these legal users getting borked by Microsoft. Seeing the so called anti priracy program already got cracked just makes me laugh about microsoft, they seem to be the most stupid company in the world right now.

Is this a serious attempt from Microsoft to counter piracy? Don't make me laugh...

Did you even read what I said instead of just quoting it: A LOT of poeple owning a legal version have problems with this patch. Would you rather have MS locking up your legaly owned system just because there's a stupid little mistake in a patch they applied? I totally agree with Florisjuh

I'm sure that this will not even cause a hiccup in the cracker/hacker community. Just like when xp came out and you had to register online within a month or it would become inactive, this little security measure will quickly be overcome by crackers and any pirate os will already be cracked to avoid this before it ever gets to the ultimate consumer.

To go back to the post about updates, you wouldn't be too bright if you were using pirated software but still let Microsoft, or any other software manufacturer, look inside your computer whenever they wanted to.

Scarus