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Pirates Hack Vista's Registration Features
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"MelindaGates" hack allows users to activate Vista without alerting Microsoft.
Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service
Friday, December 08, 2006 06:00 AM PST
Hackers are distributing a file that they say lets users of the corporate version of Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system get around the software's anti-piracy mechanisms.
Windows Vista must be "activated," or authorized by Microsoft, before it will work on a particular machine. To simplify the task of activating many copies of Vista, Microsoft offers corporate users special tools, among them Key Management Service (KMS), which allows a company to run a Microsoft-supplied authorization server on its own network and activate Vista without contacting Microsoft for each copy.