[Infowarrior] - Microsoft tweaks anti-piracy check for Windows XP

[Richard Forno]

(Perhaps XP is the 'most stolen' because nobody wants to buy Vista???   
Hrmmm.....sounds logical to me.  ---rf)


  Microsoft tweaks anti-piracy check for Windows XP

The company said it made changes to the Windows Genuine Notification  
for Windows XP Professional Edition

     * By Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service
       August 26, 2008  |  Comments: (0)

Microsoft has updated software that verifies whether a copy of Windows  
is genuine in its Windows XP Professional edition, making it similar  
to the notification in Windows Vista and thus more persistently  
visible to users.

In a blog posting attributed to Alex Kochis, a Microsoft director of  
product marketing and management, the company said it made the changes  
to the Windows Genuine Notification (WGA) alerts for XP Pro because it  
is "the product edition that is most often stolen."


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http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/08/26/Microsoft_tweaks_antipiracy_check_for_Windows_XP_1.html