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Windows Genuine Advantage 1.0 Goes Live
Global anti-piracy initiative ensures software authenticity, performance and support while providing ongoing system improvements.

Microsoft is expected to go live with a program requiring customers to validate that they are running legitimate copies of Windows before they can use Microsoft's download services.

The Windows Genuine Advantage 1.0 program ensured that customers using Windows Update, Microsoft Update for Windows and the Microsoft Download Center raun a program that checked that their Windows operating system (OS) was genuine before they could download updates or new content from those services, said David Lazar, director of Genuine Windows for Microsoft.

The company has been testing the program since September and hads validated more than 48 million systems so far, Lazar said. Until Tuesday the program had been voluntary.

Customers who discovered they had a counterfeit copy of Windows through the program either would be given a free version of the OS or could purchase it for a discounted price, he said.

To get a free version of Windows, a customer must fill out a counterfeit report identifying the source of the software, provide a proof of purchase and send in a counterfeit CD of the software.

If customers disn't have all of that information, they could still fill out a counterfeit report and receive a copy of Windows XP Home Edition for $US99 or a copy of Windows XP Professional Edition for $US149, Lazar said.

Windows XP Home normally sells for $US199 and Windows XP Professional Edition usually costs $299.

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[ This Message was edited by: rrojas260 on 2005-07-30 06:05 ]
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Posted: 2005-07-27 21:31:56
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Oupsie ... not that I didn't pay for my licenses (with an "s" at the end) but I have pirated copy's installed because I don't want to activate each time by phone when I format my computers.
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Posted: 2005-07-27 23:39:47
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I bought a copy of xp pro for a few quid of ebay.. ive got no probs at microsofts site! xp retail costs da bomb! This message was posted from a WAP device
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Posted: 2005-07-27 23:48:47
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Strange deal. That explains the new microsoft update tool. This message was posted from a Nokia
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Posted: 2005-07-28 02:04:42
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Wonder if they'll do that for service packs too lol

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Posted: 2005-07-28 02:22:54
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What's to stop someone making themselves a made-up receipt pretending to be from some dodgy car boot/market trader (who usually disappear anyway), with all made-up information, then filling in a bogus piracy information form (with info about the made-up car boot/market trader) and getting themselves a free copy of Windows?


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Posted: 2005-07-28 13:54:27
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Because you have to also provide the pirated XP cd that made you think it was real.

Somehow I don't think MS is going to buy it if it has all the right documentation with an imation (or other favourite brand of CD to burn to here ) cd saying "Windows XP Pro" in black vivid and large writing on it.

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Posted: 2005-07-28 23:33:34
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Someone will find a way to bypass it in a couple of weeks anyway, or at least i hope so.
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Posted: 2005-07-29 00:08:41
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Dont ask me because i heard this off "someone", but its already been cR*cked.
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Posted: 2005-07-29 01:35:29
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Yup got myself a working "bypass"
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Posted: 2005-07-29 09:51:29
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