Microsoft gets serious about Windows piracy
Microsoft has been battling piracy since the beginning. But it seems as though they have finally had enough. In one of the more recent Windows Updates, Microsoft deployed what they feel is a step in the right direction for preventing the theft of their software.
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6.11.2008 Microsoft gets serious about Windows piracy
Microsoft has been battling piracy since the beginning. But it seems as though they have finally had enough. In one of the more recent Windows Updates, Microsoft deployed what they feel is a step in the right direction for preventing the theft of their software.
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6.11.2008 New Windows 7 Anti-Piracy Features
Windows 7 will not reinvent the anti-piracy wheel for Microsoft. Instead, the next iteration of the Windows client will be based on Windows Vista's Software Protection Platform, especially in regard to the activation and validation experience.
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7.5.2009 Microsoft CEO Sees Less Piracy With Windows Vista
Microsoft expects software piracy, which costs the company billions of dollars every year, to ease with the introduction of its new Windows Vista operating system and Office 2007 software suite, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday
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2.12.2006 Microsoft Kills Windows and Office Validation Assistant Anti-Piracy Efforts
Microsoft's anti-piracy efforts will undertake a major overhauling. The Redmond company plans to take down both the Windows Validation Assistant and the Office Validation Assistant.
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5.7.2007 Europe votes on anti-piracy laws
Europeans suspected of putting movies and music on file-sharing networks could be thrown off the web under proposals before Brussels.
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8.7.2008 Microsoft Offers Vista Preview to Fight Piracy
Want to try Vista before you buy it? Microsoft now has a free online "test drive" of its Windows Vista operating system in its latest effort to fight software piracy and counterfeiting.
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23.1.2007 Russian Judge Dismisses Any Penalty in Piracy Case
MOSCOW, Feb. — A Russian judge convicted a provincial school headmaster on Thursday for using pirated Microsoft software in school computers, but declined to impose any penalty, saying that Microsoft’s loss was insignificant compared with its overall earnings.
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19.2.2007 Russian teacher fined in Microsoft piracy case
Putin has described the case as "utter nonsense" and former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev even asked Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to intercede on the teacher's behalf.
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8.5.2007 BSA Raises the Stakes in Fight Against Software Piracy
The Business Software Alliance (BSA), the global organization representing the nation’s leading software manufacturers, today announced that it will intensify efforts to battle software piracy in the workplace by increasing its current rewards incentive from $200,000 to $1 million from July to October 2007.
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3.7.2007 WGA notches win for Microsoft in piracy bust
Microsoft’s anti-piracy effort may be annoying to some Windows users, but it has notched a big win catching the bad guys.
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25.7.2007 Microsoft Helps Nab $900M Piracy Ring
Microsoft is telling the tale of a major software piracy investigation that weaved through 22 countries, hoping would-be pirates will think twice if they know how far the company will go to protect its computer code worth billions in revenue each quarter.
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11.2.2008 Microsoft pre-paid cards to check software piracy
Check piracy of its software, Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it would launch pre-paid cards in India before this year-end.
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17.9.2006 Worldwide Software Piracy Rate Holds Steady at 35%
A new study reveals that 35% of the software installed in 2006 on personal computers (PCs) worldwide was obtained illegally, amounting to nearly $40 billion in global losses due to software piracy.
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16.5.2007 Microsoft to beef up anti-piracy checks in Vista SP1
Microsoft will change the user experience of its automatic anti-piracy checks in Windows Vista and also make it harder for hackers to bypass the system in the first service pack for the OS due out early next year.
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4.12.2007 Microsoft Denies Having Updated Vista's Anti-Piracy Platform or the WGA
Microsoft denied having introduced any sort of updates to the anti-piracy platform built into its latest operating system, Windows Vista or to the Windows Genuine Advantage mechanism designed to safeguard over the legitimacy of the copies of the operating system.
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12.9.2007 Windows 7 Migration Tool to Move From Windows XP to Windows 7
In past we had covered guide on upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7. Unfortunately there is no direct upgrade path from Windows Xp to Windows 7 and you have to use Windows Easy Transfer utility if you want to move your user and program files from XP to Windows 7.
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22.11.2009 Vista SP1, and then Windows 7, Windows 8 and Non-Windows Midori
2008 saw the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008, but Microsoft's journey on the Windows path is far from over.
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5.8.2008 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009 Windows Reactivator 2.0 - Backup & Restore Activation Status of Windows XP with Windows Reactivator
Every time you reinstall your windows XP you need to reactivate it online using your product key & worst if you lost your Windows XP product key.
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3.6.2009 Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2
Feb 26th, 2008. Principled Technologies has released two Microsoft commissioned reports on Windows Vista SP1 performance. In these tests, Principled Technologies measured responsiveness of Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2 when performing a set of common business and home tasks.
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28.2.2008 Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9 – 1 Billion and Counting
Is Windows dead? Or, at least, is this the beginning of the end for Microsoft's proprietary operating system?
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15.9.2008 Week in Microsoft: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9
This week in Microsoft, we covered 128-bit support possibly coming to Windows 8 and Windows 9, Windows 7, Windows Mobile 6.5, Bill Gates, Office 2010 Starter, Microsoft MVP status, Windows Live Hotmail, the EU, and Microsoft Security Essentials.
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10.10.2009 Windows Vista Build 5231 and Windows Media Player 11 Leaks!
Windows Vista Build 5231 has leaked to the web. The new build is said to include Windows Media Player 11 included. View the screenshots below! This is a Main branch build that was released on September 12th, 2005 at 8:20PM.
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Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3: Official Release Dates
A French website, PC Inpact, has posted the official Microsoft product change request forms for Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.
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6.2.2008 Download Free Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2 Straight from Microsoft
Via the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image. That's right! Microsoft is offering access to free downloads of Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2.
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6.3.2008 Windows Vista SP1 outperforms Windows XP SP2 in file copy
"Its interesting that people seem to think that Vista under performs in every area of the system which is quite an incorrect perception.
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27.5.2008 Windows Fiji Has RTMd as Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008
Microsoft officially confirmed that Windows Fiji has been released to manufacturing.
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18.7.2008 Windows 7 Beta Doesn't Play Nice with Windows Azure Cloud OS Tools
The promise for Windows 7 is that it will deliver an evolution when it will come down to stretching into the Cloud compared to its precursor, Windows Vista.
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16.1.2009 Internet Explorer 8 MUI packs for Windows XP, Windows Server 03
As detailed in our previous blog post, the following Internet Explorer MUI packs shipped today.
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17.5.2009Microsoft gets serious about Windows piracy
Microsoft has been battling piracy since the beginning. But it seems as though they have finally had enough. In one of the more recent Windows
Updates, Microsoft deployed what they feel is a step in t..
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06.11.2008Microsoft Takes Aim at Piracy and Outlines Windows 7 Anti-Piracy Experience
Q&A: Joe Williams explains how customer feedback has driven anti-piracy features for Windows 7 to ensure an optimal user experience and help protect
customers from the risks of running counterfeit software...
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07.05.2009Microsoft Steps Up Anti-Piracy Effort in China
Microsoft is trying to fight piracy in China by ensuring that more new computers in the region come with genuine copies of Windows pre-installed at
the factory...
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07.11.2007Ex-RIAA Chiefs Start
Anti-Piracy Firm
Two former RIAA leaders, Jay
Berman and Hilary Rosen,
announced Thursday that they
were partnering to form an
anti-piracy consulting agency.
The two plan to focus on
intellectual property
protection, digital media
technology, international
trade issues and anti-piracy
strategies...
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02.02.2006Microsoft: Vista piracy rate is half that of XP
Microsoft said Monday that it's seeing piracy rates for Windows Vista that are half those of Windows XP.
Now cyncial me wanted
to write this up as "even pirates prefer XP two to one over Vista," but that wouldn't be fair. In reality, the decline in piracy rates is largely
due to the fact that Vista is much tougher to fake than XP.
"Piracy rates are lower because it's harder," Microsoft Vice
President Mike Sievert said in an interview Monday.
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04.12.2007US Asks WTO to Stop Chinese Piracy
The US signaled that its
patience was wearing thin with
China on Monday, as it asked
the World Trade Organization
to crack down on piracy within
the country...
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14.08.2007Microsoft Pushes New Piracy
Initiative
Expanding upon its Windows
Genuine Advantage program,
which requires customers to
verify their licenses before
downloading operating system
updates, Microsoft has rolled
out a new effort called the
Genuine Software Initiative.
The undertaking will combine
the company's anti-piracy and
counterfeit prevention
efforts...
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09.03.2006Microsoft Launches Piracy
Reminders
Microsoft on Tuesday said it
had completed the pilot phase
for WGA Notifications,
officially rolling out the
anti-piracy reminders to
Windows XP users worldwide.
The company has made minor
changes to the program in
response to customer concern
regarding its "phone
home" functionality...
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27.06.2006Pirate Bay Takes Over Anti-Piracy Domain
In yet another snub to anti-piracy efforts, infamous Swedish BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay has taken over IFPI.com, a domain formerly owned by the
recording industry group by the same name. IFPI, previously known as the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, pushes for anti-piracy
enforcement in 75 countries...
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15.10.2007Microsoft, Autodesk lose piracy patent appeal
The two companies will need to pay Michigan-based z4 nearly $160 million in total penalties for infringing on the company's rights to patents
surrounding anti-piracy technologies...
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28.11.2007Bush Admin Puts 12 Countries on Piracy Notice
Twelve nations have been put
on a list by the Bush
administration to be more
closely monitored for piracy
violations as part of a
broader crackdown on the
problem by the US government...
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30.04.2007RIAA Piracy Damages Questioned in Ruling
In a case that could have
serious implications for
future music piracy lawsuits,
a New York District Judge
ruled Thursday that a
defendant's motion to argue
the current statutory damage
structure used in the case is
unconstitutional may go
forward...
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10.11.2006Microsoft, US Disagree on China Piracy
While Microsoft is confident
that sales in China will
increase as a result of a
crackdown on piracy in 2007,
the United States government
is not. It filed complaints
with the World Trade
Organization on Tuesday...
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10.04.2007Bush Administration Puts 12 Countries on Piracy Notice
Twelve nations have been put
on a list by the Bush
administration to be more
closely monitored for piracy
violations as part of a
broader crackdown on the
problem by the US government...
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01.05.2007Study Shows Piracy a Huge
Problem
A study commissioned by the
movie industry has left those
involved both baffled and
embarrassed, as the issue of
piracy seems to be much bigger
than anyone thought. Some
industry executives have even
advocated not releasing the
information to the public...
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04.05.2006Microsoft gets serious about Windows piracy
Microsoft has been battling piracy since the beginning. But it seems as though they have finally had enough. In one of the more recent Windows
Updates, Microsoft deployed what they feel is a step in the right direction for preventing the theft of their software.
Windows users with
the pirated software installed on their computer will soon notice a black desktop, along with a permanent notice in the bottom right of their screen,
stating that they must purchase a legitimate copy of Windows. While Microsoft is trying to get their message across as best they can, the company is
still kind enough to allow all applications to run normally.
The new tactic has not gone unnoticed or without resistance. Multiple law
suites have been filed claiming Microsoft is now the one doing the hacking, though to this date, no claims have been successful. Little time has been
wasted, as users have already begun to find ways around the new feature. One way to circumvent this is as simple as shutting off the Windows Update
feature to prevent the installation of the validation program.
Many are claiming it is because of the poor economy and high priced
software that they are forced to make use of pirated goods. This may be true but they are not acceptable excuses. It is against the law to steal,
ladies and gentlemen, and Windows is finally doing something about it.
Read full story.....
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06.11.2008Swedish anti-piracy legislation moves ahead
The EU anti-piracy directive that would let intellectual property holders get information about file sharers has been implemented in a Swedish bill,
which this week received approval to be presented to Parliament...
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25.10.2008Russian Piracy Costs US $1.8
Billion
Russian piracy is becoming
costly to U.S. companies,
according to a report released
late Monday by the
International Intellectual
Property Association. In 2005
alone, nearly $1.8 billion was
lost due to pirated films,
music and software, said the
organization...
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14.02.2006Piracy Hurting Software
Industry Growth
Over one-third of the world's
software is pirated, and
groups considered legitimate
business in some countries are
contributing to the problem, a
study released Thursday by
research firm IDC said. The
issue of piracy may also be
preventing the industry from
growing overall...
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08.12.2005US, China Bust Huge Software Piracy Ring
Raids by the FBI and China's
Public Security Bureau in the
southern region of China has
resulted in the arrest of 24,
and exposed a two billion
dollar global software piracy
syndicate, believed to be one
of the largest in the world...
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