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