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Windows Nag Windows to Counter Piracy
Vicegrip writes "Microsoft is enhancing its Genuine Advantage program in the US, Australia, UK, Malaysia and NZ to now include persistent nag screens to remind that your version of Windows is not licensed. These nag screens will keep appearing until you license your version of Windows or, presumably, convince Microsoft they've made a mistake."
Microsoft is enhancing its Genuine Advantage program...
Which lets you know what MSFTs idea of "enhancement" is. Imagine their definition of "innovation".
-=Maggie Leber=-
Sorry... but you are quite wrong.
Your theory might hold some weight if there wasn't a huge market for counterfeit hardware, and other consumer goods. In such a case both the customer and the actual product maker end up losing because the customer doesn't have the product they thought they were buying and the actual producer's name gets tarnished if there are problems.
Microsoft like many has a major interest in eliminating this counterfeiting, not just so that they can make what they think they should but also enable customers not to get ripped off by unscrupulous system makers.
Help Brendan pay off his student loans
Certification during installation. So why the hell do all my Microsoft PocketPC applications tell me they are from an unknown publisher. WTF M$ ???
I flashed Familiar Linux over PocketPC in my iPaq very long time ago. Since then, I do compile all applications myself, so they are 100% "certified", whatever you mean by it. I suggest you to do the same. ARM platform target is not difficult to croscompile for on any typical x86 desktop Linux box.
There you are, staring at me again.
If you don't have a valid license for Windows, you have no right to use it, PERIOD.
I expect Microsoft is monitoring the "cracks" that will inevitiably appear to this system, and is working out any false negatives.. such that they can drop the hammer (ie. disable unlicensed versions of Windows completely) come Vista.
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Your post is hardly informative, but certainly misleading. Because in the wilderness there are at least two versions of Genuine Advantage, let's call it "weak" and "strong". You cannot uninstall the strong version. The difference depends on country of your localisation and the license category.
There you are, staring at me again.