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More than a year after Windows Vista was introduced, hackers have finally developed a clean crack of Windows Vista. There have been a variety of workarounds for Vista's copy protection before now, but this is the first time someone has figured out a way to install a cracked version that would pass all of Microsoft's various anti-piracy checks. It seems that certain OEMs found the activation process too burdensome and persuaded Microsoft to provide them with a way to bypass it in order to save their own customers the hassle. Hackers figured out how to activate this special "no activation" mode on cracked copies of Vista. I think this is one of the biggest reasons copy protection schemes fail: they almost always creates serious inconveniences for customers, and irritating customers hurts the bottom line. Companies may talk a tough line about fighting piracy, but when push comes to shove, they're not willing to cut off their own nose to spite their face by insisting on enforcing a copy protection scheme that would put their product at a disadvantage in the marketplace. Of course, the obvious question is why companies implement copy protection schemes in the first place if they invariably wind up compromising them. The reason, I think, is that these trade-offs are almost never made explicit to corporate decision makers ahead of time. When the copy protection plan is being pitched to management, its developers only talk about how great it will work. Only later, once it's actually being implemented, do people start noticing that it will also cause a lot of problems.
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This is based on an article from 2007.
Nothing to see here, move along....
It is way old news. On "The Piracy Market" allready is a Vista Loader. That changes a boot loader and vith coperaton of grub boot loader simulates an OEM BIOS.
In Sumeeth Evans -s news only old version of crack, that is cnown to not work with Nforce chipset ;)
Did someone bodge and read 4th March 2007 as 2008? ;)
I didn't bother to read the whole thing but I take it this is talking about the old BIOS hack that MS already released a "update" for that finds it etc etc?
FYI this is referring to the method of activating Vista without using software to "emulate" an OEM BIOS. This is actually modifying your BIOS to include the information that the Vista OEM files look for in order to activate. I could get more technical but I want to keep it simple, plus it wouldn't be a good idea to describe how to do this in more detail.
This method is NOT affected by Vista SP1 (either post-installed or an original Vista DVD with SP1 integrated) or any of the latest updates post-SP1, including one specifically made recently to target some of the other fake Vista activation methods.
And yes, this information IS one year old.
Mouth meet foot. I MEANT to say that this is referring to the software BIOS hack, but IMHO, the actual modification of the BIOS was more clever.
Update: Uh oh! As some readers are pointing out, it looks like this story is actually from March 4, 2007. Somebody submitted the story to Slashdot, and I foolishly linked to it without double-checking the date. My apologies for the oversight. In retrospect, I should have been more suspicious, because if Vista really went more than a year without a crack, that would probably have set some kind of record.
LOL its not just here... a bunch of sites picked it up
engadget and gizmodo and a few others all were reporting vista was cracked as if it was new, most later posted updates acknoledging that its over a year old.