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Tuesday, December 4, 2007

It Looks Like You’re Running a Pirated Version of Vista! Would You Like to Buy a License?

Microsoft’s gone and killed Vista’s infamous “Kill Switch,” a service that hamstrings unlicensed versions of the operating system.
Responding to complaints, the company said today that the upcoming Service Pack 1 update for Windows Vista will remove “Reduced Functionality Mode” from the OS’s copy-protection scheme.
That’s great news for innocent Vista users who’ve had their systems “reduced” [...]

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John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper.

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