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Microsoft introduces compulsory Windows piracy checks | |
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| Time: 10:18 EST/15:18 GMT | News Source: TechWorld | Posted By: Chris Hedlund | ||
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But keeps security updates off banned update list. Microsoft has gone live with its blocking technology that will require people to validate their copies of Windows before being allowed download access to updates. The novelly titled Genuine Advantage 1.0 program will check that anyone accessing Windows Update, Microsoft Update for Windows or the Microsoft Download Center has a genuine Windows operating system before allowing any downloads. Security updates will however be exempt from the ban. Microsoft has been testing the program since September and has validated more than 48 million systems so far, said David Lazar, director of Genuine Windows for Microsoft. Until now the program has been voluntary. | ||
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| #1 By 6859 (206.156.242.39) at 7/26/2005 12:09:17 PM |
| This is more annoyance than anything else. It's really just "Activation 2.0", more hoops to jump through just to get a new patch... Silly, really. |
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