Microsoft confirms Vista OEM hack

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In response to widespread chatter on blogs and forums, Microsoft has acknowledged the presence of hacks that may allow pirates to bypass the product activation security feature in its Windows Vista operating system.

According to a post by Microsoft Senior Product Manager Alex Kochis on the Windows Genuine Advantage developers' blog, Microsoft has identified two ways in which hackers have broken the product activation security feature on original equipment manufacturer PCs that come bundled with Vista. But the Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant does not yet have plans to snuff out this threat.

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He he

Me using same on my thing

thx for the info
will be on vista on my next UPGRADe

great.now this might be helpful in reducing piracy.i'm not affected anyways.using genuine vista ultimate.

help full in reducing PIRACY ?

help to reduce piracy ??? HOW ??? :-O

same question here how will it help full in reducing piracy

There's no say about reducing piracy there. And those full fledged cracks were available from Mid Feb itself

BIOS simulation is ugly, but it does end up being so beautiful

coz if crackers can hack the bios why cant microsoft??you'll probably be looking for new cracks when sp1 comes.

So what does this thing do exactly, will it fool MS servers into activating the copy or will it allow Vista to run without activation at all.

Runs without activation coz branded computers with Vista from large manufacturers like Dell, Asus, Lenova, HP, Acer don't require activation.