Vista Games Cracked to Run on XP

Next Generation is reporting that Vista PC games have been cracked to run under XP. Hacking groups who apparently wanted to play new titles like Shadowrun and Halo 2 with driver support have taken it upon themselves to open up the playing field a bit. "The news is sure to irk Microsoft who may now face an increased delay in some consumers adopting Vista at this early stage. However, it shouldn't come as a surprise. Earlier this month Falling Leaf Systems said in a press release that it believed Microsoft was deceiving consumers by stating that the titles would only work on Vista, and announced its intentions to release compatibility software to disprove the claim. 'Microsoft has, in typical Microsoft fashion, decided to launch their forced migration onslaught in full force with the release of two games that will only run on Windows Vista,' said Falling Leaf Systems CEO Brian Thomason in the press release." Relatedly, Mitch Gitelman of the (now closed) FASA Studios has taken exception to negative reviews of Shadowrun.

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Re:Nothing new under the sun

[Paperweight]

I once phoned Microsoft about a Microsoft game controller I have that they made Windows XP unable to use (although it works on Windows 2000). The schmucks didn't even know what the word "goodwill" meant; they told me they had never heard the word before.

Microsoft, NO dice for you in this area

[unity100]

Gamers are a hardcore crowd. You cant win against them.

For starters, around 8 million people are playing wow, another approx a million on swg, another some million on eve, some on everquest, guildwars - start counting and never stop.

these work on xp. these people dont need vista.

this move assumes that pc is like a console - something that you can lock people in. it was old times, pal, you cant do it anymore.

see, they already cracked your consoleish trickery.