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Saturday, May 16, 2009 8:02 PM

Microsoft works with local Chinese govt. of Hangzhou to reduce piracy

As I write this post I'm about to depart China after a week of travelling through three cities and visiting with dozens of customers and partners and also locally based colleagues. While I was here our Beijing office announced a plan to work with the
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Saturday, May 16, 2009 7:43 PM

Pirated Windows 7 RC builds a botnet

Just a quick follow up on my recent post about the Windows 7 RC being available over bittorrent sites but with malware embedded. There are now reports, such as this one from cnet , that the malware infected downloads were actually building a botnet. It
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Saturday, May 16, 2009 5:05 PM

New BSA Piracy Rates for 2008

In the last few days the Business Software Alliance has released the BSA Global Software Piracy Study for 2008 . The study establishes piracy rates for all packaged software products in over 100 countries. This year's results were mixed with over half
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Thursday, May 07, 2009 10:50 AM

Windows Activation Technologies: Activation and Validation in Windows 7

Earlier today we posted on Microsoft's Press Pass site an interview with our group's General Manager, Joe Williams. In the interview he discusses our approach to anti-piracy in Windows 7. The full details can be found here ; but basically the interview
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Friday, May 01, 2009 11:12 PM

Windows 7 RC torrent files infected with trojan

Wow that was fast, though I don't suppose I should be surprised. Earlier this evening I visited the blog of a colleague of mine and saw in a post of his (thanks M3!) that leaked Windows 7 RC files that were obtained through bittorrent have been found
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