According to Microsoft, they will be releasing an optional update for Windows 7 that will counter significant amount of holes in the Operating System. This will address SOME of the strategic methods of the pirates out there in the wild. But as for Joe Williams:
“We are pretty realistic, people who are actively pirating will try to find ways to continue to pirate.”
Here is an excerpt from CNET:
The Windows Activation Technologies Update for Windows 7, which will be released later this month, closes more than 70 “activation hacks,” according to Joe Williams, general manager of Microsoft’s Genuine Windows unit, responsible for anti-counterfeiting measures. The update will also check with a server periodically to see if there are further hacks that need to be addressed, though Williams said no personally identifiable information about the user will be sent to the server.
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February 15, 2010
Tonton
