Vista Can Run Without Activation for a Year

An anonymous reader gave us a heads up on this article for people who like putting things off. It begins: "Windows Vista can be run for at least a year without being activated, a serious end-run around one of Microsoft's key anti-piracy measures, Windows expert Brian Livingston said today. Livingston, who publishes the Windows Secrets newsletter, said that a single change to Vista's registry lets users put off the operating system's product activation requirement an additional eight times beyond the three disclosed last month. With more research, said Livingston, it may even be possible to find a way to postpone activation indefinitely."

Comments

Re:Why bother?

[tomstdenis]

Fair enough. And can I write to Blizzard support when the game stops working in Wine? (actually, I have no idea how good their support is so that's a half-genuine question). Point is, if I'm buying your software, paying for support and maintenance, I should be the one who gets to decide how to use it.

And when you have games like WoW, which aren't really making any technical use of a feature that Linux or BSD can't reproduce, there is no reason why they would hinder their product as to only work on one platform.

At anyrate, I'm not a WoW player so I won't be installing Wine anytime soon.