Microsoft puts limits on updates to fight piracy

000 · Post by **000** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 12:19 am

People using the Microsoft Update and Windows Update sites will no longer be able to download Windows add-ons and updates -- including security fixes -- from those sites without first going through an automatic online validation process.

OK, so who's buying a MAC?

Linux anyone?

Mines legal, is yours?

How much pressure will this put on the harware companies to write drivers for linux and/or mac if this pushes more people to other OS's?

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 9:39 am

I hope so, I'd love to be able to go 1024*768 at 85 hz in linux... I think I'd switch if I could get that... and sound.

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Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 1:23 pm

Hmm. Isn't there a new OS coming out next year?

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 2:08 pm

The whole guinune advantage crap does not work. I went to download an update, I had to run the validation tool on my PC, I did it, and well, it still worked. I can't see how some peice of software can know wether or not I paid for windows before installing it. Paid or not, the installation process is not any different.

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Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 3:31 pm

Mine is a copy of Windows XP

. But the validation key works on mine. What a useless world we live in.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 3:32 pm

And if it does not work I can just give you mine lol.

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Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 3:38 pm

Windows Update is cack anyway. The software conflicts with my PC for some reason.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 5:55 pm

I rarely do windows update, I install service packs, and download patches for worms, and I'm good. Most worms travel accross networks anyway, so if I have a firewall router it won't get in unless I put a machine in the DMZ or something.

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Shinizo · Post by **Shinizo** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 6:48 pm

Mine was custom made.. no CDs or anything. Retards didn't give me the Windows XP CD,

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 6:54 pm

I hate OEM PCs for that. I'd never buy an OEM PC, unless it was like a crazy good deal, and I just wanted to install linux for a server or something.

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