Microsoft Require Windows Piracy Check

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Microsoft Require Windows Piracy Check
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Thu, 01-27-2005 - 5:51pm

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,119458,tk,dn012605X,00.asp

from the article:

"Microsoft in mid-2005 will put a piracy lock on two of its download Web sites, requiring all Windows XP and Windows 2000 users to validate their copy of Windows as genuine before downloading software, the company says.

The lock will be placed on the Microsoft's Download Center and Windows Update Web sites, which offer applications such as Windows Media Player and the new Windows AntiSpyware product as well as security updates for Microsoft products.

Validation is not required for Windows Automatic Updates, says David Lazar, a director in Microsoft's Windows Client group. Automatic Updates is a feature in Windows that is used to download and install security updates to Microsoft software.

The move to lock out pirated copies of Windows from the download sites is part of Microsoft's effort to fight software piracy. The Redmond, Washington, software maker has been testing the lock on the Download Center Web site since September. So far over 5 million users have voluntarily taken part in the test, according to Microsoft."

Thought those of you with Windows would find this worth reading... :)

Gypsy



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Thu, 01-27-2005 - 6:54pm
One good thing about doing things the legal way isn't it? I have my number handy it is those that don't have one that have to worry......lol........I don't think I could be a crook I would be a wreck............lol.........Janet
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Fri, 01-28-2005 - 8:28am

Well, doesn't that just suck! If Micro$oft keeps it up, I'm going to load my Linux.

Lynne

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Fri, 01-28-2005 - 12:34pm

LOL! :D I don't make a good crook, either, hee! hee! ;) When I got the Mac, I gave up MS Office for Small Businesses, which I had on the old PC. I also gave up Adobe Photoshop and some other expensive programs. I didn't want to buy the Mac versions because it was just too much $$$ outlay to do so, and I chose to add more RAM and buy a digital camera instead, LOL! :P I actually had people offer me CDs with these programs on it, for the Mac, that I could have loaded if I'd wanted. I just felt WRONG about doing so. I also had a practical reason -- when I want tech support or updates or discounts on buying upgrades, I wouldn't be able to get them. I would be dooming myself to using obsolete programs. I don't understand why they can't build something into the installation CDs like they do with DVDs, so that people cannot copy them for illegal distribution. But the cost of that would be passed on to the consumer, and cost us all for the dishonesty of some. :-\ If they did that, though, how do you make a legal backup copy in case something happens to the original? How can they distinguish between the two copies? I guess they can't, of course. I just think my integrity is more important than pirating some silly computer program, I guess. Besides, the FBI would catch me, LOL! :D

I'm with you, I'd rather be legal and upfront. Same with music.

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Fri, 01-28-2005 - 3:03pm
Newbie here wondering how do we verify this if our computer came with IE and Windows installed? No discs for anything came with it.

 


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Fri, 01-28-2005 - 5:48pm

The last PC I owned had Win98 and it came with an MS authentication license code certificate attached to a small book. Everything was on a proprietary disk from HP, so I could reinstall parts or all of Windows and the embedded IE at some point, any time, from that disk. However, nobody else could use that disk on *their* computer. I also got an authentication certificate for the MS Small Business suite of Word, Excel and Publisher with a little MS booklet. Perhaps you should check through the packet of stuff that came with your computer? The computer mfg. should have given you those, and a start-up or re-installation/system restore disk that contains everything the came pre-installed with your computer. I would think the main mfg.'s still do the same, but maybe someone here with a newer PC can respond as to what they got as far as paperwork/licensing info, etc., with their system.

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Sat, 01-29-2005 - 12:44pm

And just where do I find this verification number?

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Sat, 01-29-2005 - 3:36pm

I hope it's ok to answer.

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Sat, 01-29-2005 - 5:27pm

That might be it. Or it could be the serial # of the computer...which would not be the same thing. XP is a LOT different than Win98, from what I can gather here (having never used it). Even with the Mac, though, I had little booklets (not manuals per se) and there were stickers with them with the "CD-Key #" and that's what I had to use for it to fully install, and to register the programs. The ones for programs already installed were still provided. Same thing when I originally bought the HP brand new with Win98 six years ago... The Win98 booklet from Microsoft wasn't very thick, and not a manual of any kind, but it had a green & white certificate stuck to the front cover of it. HP provided that as part of the documentation on my system that was included in the box that shipped our computer to us. I don't know what the PC industry is doing these days, I'm afraid...

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Sat, 01-29-2005 - 5:32pm

It would be a separate little booklet from Microsoft, not a computer manual for the manufacturer. You might want to call them and ask. It could be in your Systems Info on the computer itself. I can only say how it has been in my experience. I got a packet of stuff with my computer, both the HP and more recently, my Mac. This kind of information was in that packet of information, but separate from books/booklets/manuals of the computer system itself.

Maybe someone who has recently purchased a new PC system with XP on it could speak to what kind of documentation to look for, also. It might depend on the manufacturer as well, though, as to what they include.

Good luck!
Gypsy



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Sat, 01-29-2005 - 6:43pm
Thank you, Nancy and Gypsy.

Kathey


 


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