Guest Stuge Posted April 25, 2006 Report Share Posted April 25, 2006 AT THE LOGIN SCREEN: A message stating ‘This copy of Windows is not genuine’ will be permanently tattooed to the bottom righthand corner of the login screen.Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of local PC users running pirated Windows operating systems will soon face the shame of being reminded of their illegal action every time they switch on their machines.The feature will be added to the operating system by Microsoft Corp from tomorrow and cannot be erased. It will nag the guilty users and can be awkward if it shows up on corporate PCs.Current users of PCs running pirated Windows will find their machines “tattooed” the next time they update the operating system.Basically, a message stating “This copy of Windows is not genuine ...” will be permanently affixed to the operating system’s login screen, and a similar message will randomly pop up on the desktop whenever the machine is in use.The anti-piracy move is being kicked off in five countries tomorrow – the United States, Britain, New Zealand, Australia and Malaysia.Users whose machines have been affected will only be able to get rid of the tattoo if they install a genuine copy of Windows.“Or they can put up with being ‘nagged’ by the pop-up message every time they use their computers,” said K.T. Ng, group manager for Windows Client solutions at Microsoft Malaysia.If they were businessmen or corporate executives, it would be embarrassing if their clients saw the tattoo indicating that a pirated copy of Windows was being used, he said.According to Ng, the move was aimed at better serving Microsoft’s genuine users.For example, he said, counterfeiters had been able to reproduce Microsoft product packaging to the point where consumers were unable to tell genuine from imitation.“The pop-up message would immediately alert consumers to counterfeit copies of Windows, such as when they buy a new notebook or PC,” he said.If a user has unknowingly received an illegal copy of the operating system, he will be able to report the vendor concerned by clicking on the “Get Genuine” button at the login screen.Machines that have been tattooed will still be able to receive software updates for the operating system, but will not be allowed to download Internet Explorer 7.0 (IE7) and Windows Defender.IE7 is the new, more secure version of Microsoft’s web browser while Windows Defender is an anti-spyware program.taken from here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumz Posted April 25, 2006 Report Share Posted April 25, 2006 Glad I'm using OS X these days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSP62 Posted April 25, 2006 Report Share Posted April 25, 2006 (edited) I am not really too concerned of it. I give it about 2 days before someone comes out with a crack / fix / registry tweak / work around / solution to this is new hurdle. M$ and their practices are a joke. Call me a hipocrit yes cause I use XP, but I never said I prefer its use over say Linux SuSe which I am using off and on.As far IE7, just a little to late. MSIE developers have waited much too long to revamp it and come out with a more stable, faster and most importantly functional web browser. We can thank Opera and Mozilla for hearing us out and coming out with such a great browser. You won't see me leave FireFox that's for sure!That's my story and I am sticking to it Edited April 25, 2006 by JSP62 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiMz Posted April 30, 2006 Report Share Posted April 30, 2006 meh, something like this is just going to make the tech people switch over to linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stuge Posted April 30, 2006 Report Share Posted April 30, 2006 meh, something like this is just going to make the tech people switch over to linux.Weclome to AtracLife!I don`t think so .First of all don`t install that update & secondly there may be cracks available if not ,might be released soon in the market to get rid of the problem after installing that update .Edit:Pirates have found the way to disable this update.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper Posted April 30, 2006 Report Share Posted April 30, 2006 it didn't take long to find the work-around.I'm not one to support piracy, but then again why the hell should we pay hundreds of dollars to a multi-billion dollar company for an operating system that is NEVER complete when it hits the shelves? Sure, a few minor updates would be okay, but to have to download major fixes, patches etc for security holes, i think it's beyond a joke. I don't mind downloading added functionality, but when it's a matter of security and major bug fixes, it really is well beyond professional. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeseptuk Posted May 23, 2006 Report Share Posted May 23, 2006 I think there a right time for bootleg software, I used to have bootleg windows xp on my computer. Finances dictated that I bought pirate w-xp cd, only cost me £15, could not aford the full price £300 or what ever it costs. Now in full time employment have a new computer with w-xp Genuine software.#Microsoft have to reduce there prices for software if they realy want to combact bootlegers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stuge Posted May 24, 2006 Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 Microsoft have to reduce there prices for softwareI do agree but i don`t think they will do that ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimKill Posted May 24, 2006 Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 Even after all this piracy, software companies are still making money... just goes to show that it's daylight robbery... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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