Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 26th Jul 2005 17:49 UTC
Microsoft is tightening the noose for those people running illegal or pirated copies of its Windows XP/2000 software on their systems. Starting Tuesday, it will be mandatory for users of this Windows software to certify that their software is a genuine and legal copy before they will be able to receive any updates except security patches.
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All this means is if potentially another major security hole is 'found' in windows (I bet m$ purposely make the OS totally insecure to blackmail people into things such as WGA), we'll have thousands of infected PC spamming shit all over the internet.
Think SQL Slammer, but XP style.