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Given the confusion generated by Microsoft product manager
Barry Goffe's gaffe (http://article.pchome.net/2004/05/10/19689.htm)
in mistakenly declaring SP2 open to all, the average FCKGW user is
left
wondering how to improve the overall security of the internet by
fixing M$'s defective products in spite of M$'s refusal to allow
them to do so.
Apparently, the bottomline is that SP1 blocked 2 registration
numbers, and now SP2 blocks 20. But the keygen approach used
in SP1 to defeat this remains workable using new keygen files.
Which leaves only the question of whether or not Goffe 'took the
package',
and is now spending more time helping his kids with their homework,
when he is not working on his golf swing.
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"It was a tough choice, but we finally decided that even if someone
has pirated copy of Windows, it is more important to keep him safe
than it is to be concerned about the revenue issue,"
-Barry Goffe, ex-Microsoft product manager
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XP SP2 keygen file:
Newsgroups: alt.warez.uk
Date: 2004-06-04 12:55:20 PST
polak wrote:
http://luckyx2.bei.t-online.de/MSKey4in1.rar
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number of SP2 blocked product ID's:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3774567.stm
Microsoft has worked out the 20 most pirated product IDs and SP2 will
not install and run on any copy of XP bearing one of those numbers.
"The situation at the moment is that we will block those," he said.
It is unclear what effect this strategy will have in countries where
much of software used is illegal. For instance, the anti-piracy
Business Software Alliance estimates that 92% of software in China is
pirated.
Mr Randle said Microsoft was keeping its SP2 strategy under constant
review.
"Whether it will change between now and launch I do not know," he
said.
Service Pack 1 for Windows XP worked with almost all legitimate and
pirated versions of the software.
Only those copies of XP that used the two most widely pirated product
IDs were barred from getting the upgrade.
Barry Goffe's gaffe (http://article.pchome.net/2004/05/10/19689.htm)
in mistakenly declaring SP2 open to all, the average FCKGW user is
left
wondering how to improve the overall security of the internet by
fixing M$'s defective products in spite of M$'s refusal to allow
them to do so.
Apparently, the bottomline is that SP1 blocked 2 registration
numbers, and now SP2 blocks 20. But the keygen approach used
in SP1 to defeat this remains workable using new keygen files.
Which leaves only the question of whether or not Goffe 'took the
package',
and is now spending more time helping his kids with their homework,
when he is not working on his golf swing.
------------
"It was a tough choice, but we finally decided that even if someone
has pirated copy of Windows, it is more important to keep him safe
than it is to be concerned about the revenue issue,"
-Barry Goffe, ex-Microsoft product manager
-------------------------
XP SP2 keygen file:
Newsgroups: alt.warez.uk
Date: 2004-06-04 12:55:20 PST
polak wrote:
http://luckyx2.bei.t-online.de/MSKey4in1.rar
--------------------------
number of SP2 blocked product ID's:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3774567.stm
Microsoft has worked out the 20 most pirated product IDs and SP2 will
not install and run on any copy of XP bearing one of those numbers.
"The situation at the moment is that we will block those," he said.
It is unclear what effect this strategy will have in countries where
much of software used is illegal. For instance, the anti-piracy
Business Software Alliance estimates that 92% of software in China is
pirated.
Mr Randle said Microsoft was keeping its SP2 strategy under constant
review.
"Whether it will change between now and launch I do not know," he
said.
Service Pack 1 for Windows XP worked with almost all legitimate and
pirated versions of the software.
Only those copies of XP that used the two most widely pirated product
IDs were barred from getting the upgrade.