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[Nvyseal]

The crackdown measures in Windows Vista show how much more seriously Microsoft has started taking Windows piracy, which for years has been extremely widespread in areas such as Russia and China. The Business Software Alliance, a software industry group, estimates that 35 percent of software installed on PCs worldwide is pirated.

Microsoft Corp.'s forthcoming Windows Vista will take much harsher steps to curtail piracy than previous versions of its operating system, including crippling the usefulness of computers found to be running unlicensed copies of the new software.

The world's largest software maker said Wednesday that people running a version of Windows Vista that it believes is pirated will initially be denied access to some of the most anticipated Vista features. That includes Windows Aero, an improved graphics technology.

If a legitimate copy is not bought within 30 days, the system will curtail functionality much further by restricting users to just the Web browser for an hour at a time, said Thomas Lindeman, Microsoft senior product manager.

Under that scenario, a person could use the browser to surf the Web, access documents on the hard drive or log onto Web-based e-mail. But the user would not be able to directly open documents from the computer desktop or run other programs such as Outlook e-mail software, Lindeman said.

Microsoft said it won't stop a computer running pirated Vista software from working completely, and it will continue to deliver critical security Relevant Products/Services from MessageLabs updates.

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[chriso_86]

Yeah, I read this about an hour ago. I knew this day would come eventually. However, I remember when XP first was coming out and we thought that this same sort of thing was going to happen. I will see it when I believe it!

[m.oreilly]

chriso_86, on Oct 4 2006, 10:08 AM, said:

...I will see it when I believe it!

that seems to be a constant theme throughout the historyof mankind...

[chriso_86]

Yup, however MS has cried wolf for a long time now. However, I think this time around they probably will get it done.

[simon]

same here I'LL believe it when it happens ! this was going to happen in xp too never did.... OOOHHHH wait yes it did we just figured out how too fix it

[VROSA]

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