(Microsoft to lock you out of your copy of Windows Vista)
It's not going to work, is it, really, come on.
All you are doing is annoying the innocent bystanders who get splattered with the fall out when you decide for them that their copy isn't good enough to use for more than an hour at a time anymore.
Given the fight I just had with Wheezy's XP laptop to get it to reboot (fragged ntoskrnl file), I have little hope that Vista will work nicely once it's 'out there'.
Never mind MS couldn't get anything right if you paid them (oh wait, you do...).
Predictions:
A virus triggers the auto-lockout functions just because it can and sets the time you can log in for to -5 seconds, making it impossible to remove the virus.
People will do what they did with Genuine Advantage (which is neither) and patch Windows so it thinks all is well and shuts the damn pop ups off.
People will write their own version of one of these "key management services" that companies are supposed to have, that just says 'yes thats fine, you can activate' no matter what you ask. This program will run on Linux to start with, but will eventually become a program you can install on the Windows box itself.
Intresting idea just occured: What happens if I set up a pretend KMS in my company, and the machines come ask me before they ask the real one (I intercept the broadcast / DNS query / whatever)... can I get a list of legimate keys or other intresting bits by looking at what they ask and proxing them through to the real KMS / microsoft.com ?
In short, where is the spec ?
It's not going to work, is it, really, come on.
All you are doing is annoying the innocent bystanders who get splattered with the fall out when you decide for them that their copy isn't good enough to use for more than an hour at a time anymore.
Given the fight I just had with Wheezy's XP laptop to get it to reboot (fragged ntoskrnl file), I have little hope that Vista will work nicely once it's 'out there'.
Never mind MS couldn't get anything right if you paid them (oh wait, you do...).
Predictions:
A virus triggers the auto-lockout functions just because it can and sets the time you can log in for to -5 seconds, making it impossible to remove the virus.
People will do what they did with Genuine Advantage (which is neither) and patch Windows so it thinks all is well and shuts the damn pop ups off.
People will write their own version of one of these "key management services" that companies are supposed to have, that just says 'yes thats fine, you can activate' no matter what you ask. This program will run on Linux to start with, but will eventually become a program you can install on the Windows box itself.
Intresting idea just occured: What happens if I set up a pretend KMS in my company, and the machines come ask me before they ask the real one (I intercept the broadcast / DNS query / whatever)... can I get a list of legimate keys or other intresting bits by looking at what they ask and proxing them through to the real KMS / microsoft.com ?
In short, where is the spec ?
Tom