Win XP rumours

[TISM]

There were a number of rumours getting around over the past weeks, speculating about what Microsoft is planning to do about pirate copies of WinXP in the soon to be released Service Pack 1.

Here's one from Woody's Windows Watch :-

"According to the rumor, Microsoft is changing Windows Product Activation in WinXP's Service Pack 1, which is due any day. We all knew that there were some WPA changes coming - I talked about them last month in my WinXP Newsletter 2.21. The most significant SP-1 WPA "feature" that everyone knows about is the disabling of one specific corporate CD key: if you try to apply the SP-1 patch over the top of a copy of Windows XP that used this specific CD key, the installer refuses to run. Microsoft made SP-1 work that way because this one CD key, which begins FCKGW-RHQQ2..., has been used on hundreds of thousands of bootleg copies of WinXP."



Anyone recogise that CD key? -

Anyway this Microsoft Statement here appears to confirm the rumour.

TISM :p

[THAUmaTURgic]

lol.

Isn't there a cracked version of the Service Pack 1 that already avoids this. If not there will be.

[Shady]

How bout just not installing the Service Pack?

[oreo]

how about contacting me for the program that will let you change your cd key, and gives you about 50 alternatives to the one that is banned...

yay for the file being very small
contact me if you want it

[Aarseth]

hugs my overpriced legit copy

[THAUmaTURgic]

lol Fritz.

you forgot to add "That I have to activate each time I format"

[TISM]

I'm disgusted at the level of coruption our WHC clan members are are involved in.
Oreo - consider yourself contacted.

p.s. What about my overpriced, unopened legit copy? haha

TISM

[oreo]

checl private forum.