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Windows Genuine Advantage back in business
by Victor Agreda, Jr. Aug 2nd 2005 at 10:57PM
With the resounding thwock of a tennis ball being hit back over the net, Microsoft appears to have plugged that nasty little hack that allowed anyone with cut-and-paste abilities to thwart their Windows Genuine Advantage scheme while updating their ill-gotten XP boxen.Sister blog The Unofficial Microsoft Weblog reported this on Monday, so it seems the war isn't over yet. Why it seems like just last week the whole party started... No word on whether that DLL hack is still working (you'll have to hunt in the posts to find that one, sorry). I guess you could always run an "unsafe" computer, or (gasp) purchase a legal copy of XP?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Rui said 6:24AM on 8-03-2005
Why bother buying a copy of something that keeps way beind what it should be?
Why pay for something that has severe security problems?
Why spend money in something that say's "we're not responsible for any loss of work or profits" when we get a BSOD and all data has been erased, and we find out that all backup copies are unrecoverable because of some dll that made unreadable tape copies?
I pay for OS400. It runs on AS400, and it's safe, flawless.
I would pay for Linux, wich is not flawless, but i don't need to, because it's free.
Why pay for Windows???
Isn't an OS the base of a computer?
If it is, shoudn't we expect more than it is actually delivering?
For a secretary who only uses word to print faxes, why would she need more than a i486 at 33mhz??? She would need no more than a typewriter!!!
What's the utility of 128mb Video Ram in windows??? why a 3d accelerator in a 2d enviroment?
Wrong, wrong, wrong...
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