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Microsoft will take the fight to pirates with new security features in Vista SP1

Microsoft has big plans in store for its Windows Vista operating system. The company released a release candidate version of Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows Vista in mid-November. SP1 is supposed to address a number of performance-related issues with Vista and includes a number of security update and bug fixes that have been rolled out since the operating system launched over a year ago.
In addition to the previously mentioned SP1 features, Microsoft is looking to make pirating Vista a tougher endeavor. The Redmond, Washington-based company says that new measures introduced with SP1 will further reduce piracy -- piracy for Vista is already less than half that of Windows XP according to Microsoft.
One loophole that Microsoft will close is the current method of extending the "grace period" to activate Vista. Original versions of the exploit allowed users to extend the grace period from 30 days to 120 days. Later variations of the hack extended the grace period to a full year, while yet another extended the grace period to the year 2099.
"Under this new system, no features will be disabled. Instead it will be a notification-based experience similar in some ways to what we have done with XP. A user of a system that has not been activated and gone through the 30-day grace period to activate will, when logging in on the 31st day, see a dialog box on a plain black background," said Microsoft group product manager Alex Kochis.
"That will give them two options: Activate Windows now, which will bring up all the options to do this, and activate Windows later, which takes them directly to their desktop, which will be exactly the same as it had been the last time they used it, except that there will be a plain black background and a message in the lower right hand corner over the system tray telling them that their copy of Windows is not genuine," Kochis continued.
Microsoft will also put a stop to the OEM BIOS exploit which allows unscrupulous Vista pirates to edit systems files and a motherboard's BIOS to fool Windows into thinking that it is installed in a genuine OEM system.
These latest additions to Vista, however, will do little to quell those who continue to rally behind Microsoft's venerable Windows XP operating system. Due to customer demand, Microsoft extended the shelf life of Windows XP and has given OEMs the ability to provide Windows XP downgrades for customers who are unhappy with their new Windows Vista-based machines. In addition, recent testing has shown that Vista SP1 is no match for Windows XP SP3 in OfficeBench performance which gotten much play around the web.
Not surprisingly, Apple has pounced on Microsoft's Vista woes and has a number of television commercials which poke fun at Vista's "inferiority" to Windows XP.

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FS2004 disse:

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FS2004 disse:

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Mordorr disse:

Pffff......

Estou é a espera do SP3...

Embora tenha para aqui algures o Vista....

Como alguém disse e bem, haverá sempre maneira de.....

E mesmo quem o tem legal, não se livra como já aconteceu de ao fazer updates, ver o SO legal, considerado ilegal.....

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Microsoft softens response to piracy

By JESSICA MINTZ





SEATTLE
Microsoft Corp. is pulling back from a system that disables programs on users' computers if it suspects the software is pirated, opting instead for a gentler approach based on nagging alerts.
Microsoft said late Monday it will roll out the new version of Windows Genuine Advantage with the first "service pack" for Windows Vista, due in the first quarter of 2008.
When computer users activate a copy of Windows Vista or try to download certain software from Microsoft's Web site, the Windows Genuine Advantage system scans their PCs for signs of pirated software. Today, if the tool finds an unauthorized copy of Vista, the glassy Vista user experience disappears and other features are suspended.
In the new version, PC users found to have a pirated copy of Vista will continue to be able to use their computers, but with unmistakable signs their operating system is a fake. The desktop wallpaper will turn black, and a white notice will appear alerting users to the problem. Each time they log in, they will be prompted to buy legitimate software, and every hour, a reminder bubble will appear on the screen.
Users with a high tolerance for irritation can put off switching to genuine software indefinitely, but those who relent and buy a real copy of Windows can do so at reduced prices -- $119 for Windows Vista Home Premium, half the regular retail price.

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petersaints disse:

É por causa dessas cenas que prefiro a versão Inglesa Infelizmente com a Versão OEM tenho português... Pois é outra duvida a chave OEM de um portatil pode ser usada para instalar o Windows Vista de um DVD mesmo? Sem ter que ser o DVD de Recuperação? Posso por exemplo arranjar um DVD com as edições todas do Windows Vista e meter a chave que vem por baixo do portátil que ela activa sem problemas (seleccionando o Windows Vista Home Premium está claro)?

É que andar a fazer para sempre Recuperações e a instalar o SP1 depois sucks. Queria arranjar um DVD com do Windows Vista do SP1 e instalar logo com o SP1 integrado (como faço com o meu Windows XP)... até porque o DVD de recuperação trás montes de tralha de origem e assim era maneira de instalar tudo de raiz mesmo.

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New WGA Behavior in Windows Vista Service Pack 1

Microsoft this week announceed changes to Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) in Windows Vista. Here's what I learned in a recent briefing with Alex Kochis, a group product manager of Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) at Microsoft.
Microsoft is making two major changes to WGA in Windows Vista, though only one of these changes will ever affect legitimate Windows users, and then only rarely. These changes will be implemented in Service Pack 1 (SP1), due in Q1 2008. Kochis told me that these changes would most likely not be included in any of the upcoming release candidate builds of Vista SP1, so we won't be able to find out more until the final version ships.
First, Microsoft is disabling the two most common exploits that exist today for bypassing product activation in Vista: The grace timer hack, which resets the activation grace time of the product, in one case all the way out to 2099, and the OEM BIOS hack, which intercepts calls to the BIOS, preventing Vista from accurately determining when hardware changes are made. Pirate Windows users utilizing one of these hacks will see their systems return to the intended state--typically a grace period countdown--once SP1 is installed.
The second change is more dramatic. Today, Vista offers up two different experiences on illegitimate systems, depending on the circumstances. If the product activation period expires, for example, Vista moves into Reduced Functionality Mode (RFM), where the user can only access the IE Web browser for 60 minutes at a time before being logged out; or, you can boot into Safe Mode and access your documents and perform housekeeping tasks and, hopefully, get your system activated. A second special functional mode, called Non-Genuine State (NGS), occurs when an activated copy of Vista fails a Web-based validation check, such as when you attempt to download software from the Microsoft Web site. In this case, certain features--like Windows Aero and ReadyBoost--are completely disabled, while others--like Windows Update and Windows Defender--work in limited ways only.
Beginning with SP1, RFM and NGS are a thing of the past. Instead, systems that fail activation or validation will enter a notifications-based mode of operation that's similar to what happens in XP today. At logon, the user is prompted to activate via a pop-up dialog box that can't be dismissed for 15 seconds. And once logged on, the system will prompt the user every hour by changing the desktop wallpaper or background to plain black and flashing an activation dialog and a balloon help dialog near the system tray. You can ignore the pop-ups and change the background back to your favorite photo, but it will all happen again in another hour. The key point is that no real functionality is now lost, as was the case with RFM and NGS.
The question here, of course, is whether these changes go far enough to address the problems users have experienced with WGA goes bad. Certainly, the situation is improving. Instead of moving into RFM when the activation grace period expires, or into NGS when an activated Windows version fails online validation, Vista with SP1 will instead provide a fully-working, if more than slightly irritating, experience. All your applications will work normally and you'll be able to get online. This is good news, but the onus of accountability is still on legitimate users. I'll need to see this functionality in action before I can render a verdict, but even a little bit of progress is still progress.
I'd like to see Microsoft abandon WGA entirely, but that's clearly never going to happen. In the absence of that revolution, I suppose any victories, however tiny, should at least be appreciated.

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TurboPT disse:

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