It is a simple brute force attack, dumb as a rock that just tries keys. If it gets one, you manually have to check it and try activation. Is is ugly, takes hours, is far from point and click, but it is said to work. I don't have any Vista installs because of the anti-user licensing so I have not tested it personally."To make matters worse, Microsoft will have to decide if it is worth it to allow people to take back legitkeys that have been hijacked, or tell customers to go away, we have your money already, read your license agreement and get bent, we owe you nothing."posted by Zonk on Friday March 02, @10:02 (Windows)Microsoft will HAVE to deal with this issue and provide replacement keys. If they do not the run the risk of having "legitimate" customers turning pirate and using crackers tools to activate software that was purchased legally. Activation is a huge mess and will never be effective. Some would even say that it promotes piracy. If Microsoft wants to really stop the problem with illegal copies of it's software than they will have to price it reasonably. Is Vista a new product, or an upgrade the fixes problems with legacy code? I have six computers at home and paying upwards of $1800 to move all of them to Vista is not going to happen, I'll stick with Linux and XP thank you very much. Now for $600 I would gladly purchase Vista and install it on each and every machine.
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