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Microsoft to offer code protection, validation to other software developers | |
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| Time: 00:29 EST/05:29 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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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 parties some of the same anti-piracy technologies that Microsoft was baking into Windows and Office. Instead, Microsoft has decided to provide external developers with a separate, parallel offering, said Group Product Manager Thomas Lindeman. | ||
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| #1 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 7/16/2007 9:37:47 AM |
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Sigh. DRM will always be broken. WGA has been worked around so it only causes problems for valid users. And now they want to license this mess to others. Great.
http://www.defectivebydesign.org/ |
| #2 By 2960 (24.254.95.224) at 7/16/2007 10:53:02 AM |
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Great. Now everyone can annoy us with WGA.
Makes you want to go back to Windows 98 and leave all this paranoia crap behind... TL |
| #3 By 32132 (142.32.208.232) at 7/16/2007 11:47:57 AM |
| #2 I miss hardware dongles too. Those were the good old days. |
| #4 By 2960 (24.254.95.224) at 7/16/2007 1:26:28 PM |
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Now that there was funny...
TL |
| #5 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at 7/16/2007 1:57:34 PM |
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Very smart MS, very smart. So in the future I will have to be not only concerned of MS software glitches when validating my, PAID, products but other brand too.
This week-end I will begin to explore the Linux world. Too much is too much... |
| #6 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 7/16/2007 3:51:02 PM |
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I wiped off the Vista image I was running on my second system that I was playing with and put Ubuntu 7.04 back on it. Give it a try:
http://www.ubuntu.com/ or check out other distros at: http://distrowatch.com/ |
| #7 By 32132 (142.32.208.232) at 7/16/2007 4:17:37 PM |
| Vista is doing very well on the Distrowatch stats page. |
| #8 By 23275 (24.179.4.158) at 7/16/2007 11:43:10 PM |
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Well just yummy.
If it worked all the time, WGA would be no problem, but that has not been my personal experience with it - where, as readers here know, I was bitten by WGA of one version for a new MS Digital Imaging Suite Sig Series product, which buggered WGA in Vista Ultimate. While it was the only instance I have seen personally, even once is too much. While resolvable, the very thought of being treated like a thief and pirate when you play by every rule is just too awful - too insulting to put up with. The fact that it can happen even when one is using Microsoft's own versions of the WGA, just adds/added to the outrage. Unless all parties using any version or mix of versions of the WGA can assure legitimate users that they will not suffer the pains of being treated badly, then I don't see how Microsoft can use it - much less sell it to others to add to the potential harm to customers. I really think that MS has been taken over by some kind of hybrid marketing-accounting mentality - at least that is what their new servers [E2K7 and W2K7] feel like to me. I just don't see the engineer in them and I do smell a "we're coming into the services space by taking the markets that our partners developed" rat! Steve, if you're reading this.... "Forget it, Sir - your guys can't even support the engineers that use your products each and every day - how in hades do you expect to service individual users?" "Please issue ball bats to your engineers and turn them loose on the marketing guys' cars in the parking lot." |
| #9 By 37 (76.210.78.134) at 7/17/2007 8:16:02 AM |
| Now Latch...you are the first to complain about non Windows related news on the site, and yet you post a blatant advertisement for a competing OS. Oh the nerve :-) |
| #10 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 7/17/2007 8:44:15 AM |
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#8: There's the rub. MS, as the 800lb gorilla, can happily piss off customers without worrying about them defecting (for the most part). Other companies do not have that monopoly luxury. If they piss off their customers with wobbly activation and validation schemes, the customers will go elsewhere.
#9: My post had 'Vista' in it, so I meet the Windows-content post criteria. Besides, I never had a problem with user comments -- only the posted stories. And I already said I would shut up about it. |
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