Windows Vista SP1 Eliminates Anti Piracy

windows vista unlockWhen Microsoft released the new Windows Vista OS, it declared a war against counterfeiting legal copies of the system, by embedding Windows Genuine Advantage program in the Vista. The program was designed to check for illegal copies of the operating system and lock them up, once they have been unveiled.

Now, as part of the new upcoming Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Microsoft decided to kill the WGA program that locked those fake copies, and instead, embedded a soften version of a reiterative popup notifier, to warn the users their copy of Windows Vista is not genuine.

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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 Operating Systems

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