Taking the next step with Windows Vista SP1

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Taking the next step with Windows Vista SP1

Windows Vista News — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:30:02 GMT

Interesting point at blogs.msdn.com

Microsoft to crack down on Vista cracks

Bink.nu — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:26:22 GMT

Microsoft will feed Windows Vista users an update in the next week to finger illegal copies installed

Saiba que o vai mudar na ativação do Vista com o SP1

Cláudio Ralha — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:10:49 GMT

Amigos, a Microsoft está fazendo mudanças no sistema de ativação do Windows Vista. Para saber o que...

Windows Vista será más benevolente con quienes no han pagado licencia

meneame.net — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:08:04 GMT

Una actualización que será publicada con posterioridad al lanzamiento del Service Pack 1 para Windows Vista este mes procurará que la funcionalidad del sistema operativo no sea desactivada después del período de prueba, que continuará siendo de 30 días.

Microsoft released KB940510 for Vista

Donna's SecurityFlash — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:03:48 GMT

INTRODUCTION This update enables Windows Vista to detect activation exploits that bypass product activation

re: Taking the next step with Windows Vista SP1

rdamiani — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:52:39 GMT

I'm glad your team removed RFM. I've not been shy about my opinion that it was a bad idea, badly executed. I still think that Microsoft is going the wrong way by not offering actually useful 'family packs' of Vista though. The short-lived promotion wasn't very compelling. Nor is Vista, for that matter. It's pretty, but kinda useless. So while I still use PCs at work, all my home systems will be replaced with Macs as they die off.

re: Taking the next step with Windows Vista SP1

ndiamond — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:28:59 GMT

Other than reinstalling Vista for friends who bought Vista licences together with their PCs, my experiments with Vista and Server 2008 have used versions received from Microsoft for development and testing. Among occasions when I do some test on Vista or Server 2008, it's pretty common for the grace period on the installation to have expired since the previous time I used it. So I have somewhat memorized the rearm scenario, and then do a reinstall when rearm doesn't work.

Now, two odd events occured recently.

(1) In a server 2008 installation, where there is no visible SP1 yet, the grace period had expired, rearm announced that it worked, and I rebooted, but the result was not rearmed. It still asserted that it wasn't genuine. (Quick, someone go after the pirate web site that let me download it.)

(2) In a Vista installation, where I'm sure the grace period had expired, there was no reminder and no reduced functionality in using it. It almost makes me wonder if I had accidentally activated it without being aware of doing so. Is there some way to check?

Update to Windows Vista Activation Exploit detection begins today

Windows Genuine Advantage — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 02:31:02 GMT

Last year around this time, I blogged about some changes for Windows Vista that were released with SP1