This article contains no real info and there is no investigation made. "With the latest Windows 8 build (8064) that has been delivered to Intel, it’s clear that the company is taking strides to make sure that its upcoming OS isn’t quit so easy to pirate." What is clear and to whom? The quality of this article makes me say that the author has no clue at all about activation. He doesn't address the current method. And I am sure he don't know anything about OA3.0.
Personally, I wouldn't. Not unless I had solid evidence to support it. Otherwise it does more harm than good
Having said that what do you think Yen, will there be a crack for Windows 8 as soon as it releases or might take time (As no software till date is uncrackable) or MS will hit hard on piracy with Win 8 ?
If OEM Activation is kind of the same mechanic als the current one, then W8 will be "cracked" when OEM Hardware is released so ppl dump Slic 2.2/3.0 whateer they will call it and extract der cert and key But Microsoft could make this alot harder, for example: SLP keys are like MAK ones, (they wont show up as valid key in registry), they also could Encrypt the Cert with a hash of the SLP key and the hardware ID = alot harder to get valid SLP Key/Cert ~(but this probably won't happen)~ Windows piracy is a two edged sword, its billion of revenue lost for microsoft, but more ppl using windows = more market share = higher stocks
Yup that's right..MS would like to see Windows on every possible system and get more market share as you said so MS killing piracy would be like putting axe on its own feet..but Then MS will try pretend as though its making piracy harder but on the other hand try to be little tolerant towards pirates
+1 Yen, I hope Apple and M$ will lose a lot of market share. And one day my dream come true. Open source OS for everybody's needs. Exactly what this world needs!
If MS,was less arrogant and admit,compensate the "flop" that was Vista or hasta la Vista sick puppy,then drop the prices of MS-OS then I might think of not using "Reverse Engineering" allias Pirating or what ever. What else is left for any crafty geek or guru,try it is not?. By the way,does MS ever told us of any built in OS including antivirus,antimalware,anti,anti,never,a la Apple,eh,oh,ah,uh,oops,yes different arquitecture,I believe the day that MS eats humble pie,I may think that pigs fly.
Wasn't there a blog post a while ago from a Microsoftie saying they didn't care about the likes of us pirating the odd copy but those who sell pirated stuff was their concern.
I seriously doubt it will be anywhere near as easily hacked as Windows 7. This is my opinion and thats what forums are about. There are many here who already agree. I can only hope it's possible but I'm pretty sure Msoft has a few tricks left.
Open source isn't really answer when it comes to OS. For power users etc its fine, but Linux just has too many variables and not as easy to set up as other OS's. Even with the 'easier' versions, there are too many variations between the different options. The only real solution to this is to have one version, but then that somewhat defeats the purpose! I'm not saying that Linux is at all bad or anything, just you need some uniformity, and not so many choices to confuse the 'ordinary' person Has anyone here heard of the SKA telescope? the amount of data passing to that will be equal to all the worlds current internet traffic (bittorrenting etc included), and will require a supercomputer so fast it hasn't been invented yet. Wonder what OS base they'll use for that?! - it may be a completely new one, who knows? and who knows whether that will funnel down to the typical user late as a uniform 'open source' OS? Windows 8 won't be completely un-activable via a loader etc, just be harder. They can't make it impossible for bulk activation. There is some ways they can get around that, which I won't mention to give them ideas but even those are workaroundable with programming knowledge (not easy though). To staive off activation bypassing, and to get people to switch over to the new versons quicker, the easiest thing to do is just to sell it for a more reasonable cost. At the moment, the cost is a little high for a lot of people to even contemplate it. Windows does have too many versions which just increases costs. x86 in Windows 7 should never have been an option, and definitely not in Windows 8! also instead of having Windows N as a separate printing, it should all be part of the one disk. Simplty if in a country affected by that ruling, and the country location is selected as one of those, then the ballots appear. If you choose IE, IE is already there to install without downloading. It doesn't break the court ruling and does provide some (very small) cost benefit. Windows 'Home Basic' and 'Starter' should be just one product, Windows Home Premium/Pro should be one product and Enterprise/Ultimate should be one product... although its pretty much like that now it does simplify things.
If the SLIC hack won't work anymore, there is always the option to delete the activation files. No activation files --> no activation.
I don't remember where, because it was a long long time ago. But I read a quote from Bill Gates that said something like: "Piracy make us competitive against Linux", refering to the consumer market.