MS simply beefed up security, that's all, not in one single step, but gradually, in win7 times I could check into corpnet with my friend's login in any machine, and I remember MS guys brought in their friends/families into MS office(don't know if it's the same elsewhere) and talked over corpnet or new builds, and they simply plug in a FD to get whatever they likes, naturally the MS guy would still say "Don't spread it around", but I guess he simply couldn't care less.
I think this time round they really need to get the OS right and don't want bad first impressions even if they are from a leak. They know Windows 8 was a bad direction to have gone in and want to make up for it. I also think with all the cuts to staff, builds not getting passed out as much, new structure and management have contributed to less leakyness?
windows 8 is a great direction n i hope they continue or i have the option for start screen in windows 9 n if not then i stay with 8.1
I didn't want to appear to be disrespectful to your post. I found it funny especially the expression 'permission to leak'. Almost nobody here knows internals of M$ or Apple. They would never admit a leak done with intent. But I had contact to people who had access to the stuff at the late w7 until w8 RTM period (from M$ / Intel). Members PM'ed info additionally to support MDL to give something in return for what they've got from all the helpful people here. They are single people who have direct access to the 'stuff'. They are active at forums somewhere and usually pass the stuff to those who leak then. If the stuff is too hot they keep it for themselves or pass it to single people who are skilled enough to use the secret. M$ had not leaked their OS officially that time! It were people who broke NDA and I am not sure if they leak without to ask the legit user....it were people who copied what they could, sometimes without even to know what it exactly is. "Have a look here this is what I could get this time....after checking the package it unveiled its purpose." I stop here talking..as admin I have to stay loyal I still know anything what happened beyond the scenes. It started with Chinese docs of OA2.0.... ATM it is quiet. What M$ 'leaks' are features and plans. They officially announce and release previews, betas, RCs, they are the only official 'leaks'. Anything that has the NDA reminder has been leaked without permission.
Supposedly, from the court docs, he leaked it to the 'French blogger'. I, myself, was more interested in win8 back when that was still news. If Mr. blogger ever posted it on his website, I never saw it. Even back then, sometimes companies would contact the authorities and try to get things taken down from the web. It's possible it was posted and then removed after the fact. I think the best people would be able to make of it is a phone method activator. The thing with something like that is, even if you got it to work; it reports daily about your activation info. I'm pretty sure MS would notice a ton of people activating with bogus/same keys and issue an update and/or some WAT stuff. One of the major benefits of the KMS activation is that it's been randomized and the key is always the same. It's a LOT harder for MS to weed out the fakes even though they have many less clients. Heck, if you wanted to troll MS, you could even change the PID to their internal one. They still have a pic of their KMS PID on their technet page IIRC. Ahh... I could ramble about this crap for days. I don't know what changes they'll make to win9's activation, but I'm sure we'll all be nerding out for a while.
I've gotten used to the Start Screen over the past two years and use it without any issue but once 9 touches down with its Start Menu, that's my route. I'm quite the opposite, really. I'm hoping I can use the Start Menu on any device (particularly this one; the Venue 8 Pro seems to abide by different rules in 8.1 than the rest of my Windows family due to being tagged as a "tablet" so I hope it doesn't disqualify it from using the Start Menu in 9).
128bit? Again? There's no need for 128bit chips so they win't be made for a long time, which means there won't be any operating systems for it...
Exactly, don't leak big things like activation server SDK and have no fear, Microsoft never sued over leaked Windows builds as far as I'm aware, and build id can be modified/removed easily too, but M$ Won't give a crap about it, due to the high amount of $$$$.
Pretty funny that with all this information that a Windows 9 section hasn't been made on these forums you are just cluttering up the Windows 8 section.