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Ärende: Re: Vista and the improved kill switch
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From: /m <mike@barkto.com>

>    Back in June, I took a bunch of heat from Microsoft when I reported that
>the company was planning to roll out a Windows "kill switch" this fall.


Only in June of this year?   Others were far less trusting of Microsoft
much earlier...


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On Sat, 01 Sep 2001 08:16:54 -0400, Mike '/m' <mike@barkto.com> wrote:

>
>At this point, I don't see an "off" switch in the Windows XP Progam
>DeActivation feature, but that does not mean that one could not or would
>not be added at some future date.  Currently the Product DeActivation
>feature is enabled by the shortage of operators at Microsoft's Product
>Activation support center.  "I'm sorry, all operators are busy, the wait
>time is currently three hours...."
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  /m





On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 09:37:04 -0400, "Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/3657
>
>Ed Bott says, "I told ya so":
>
>    Back in June, I took a bunch of heat from Microsoft when I reported that
>the company was planning to roll out a Windows "kill switch" this fall.
>Microsoft denied it. Now, today, comes an announcement of the Software
>Protection Platform for Windows Vista, which sounds pretty damn close to
>what I wrote about in the first place.
>
>    If your copy of Windows Vista is "identified as counterfeit or
>non-genuine" you'll be kicked into "reduced functionality mode" ... There is
>no start menu, no desktop icons, and the desktop background is changed to
>black ... After one hour, the system will log the user out without warning
>... Sounds like a kill switch to me.
>
>James Robertson rants:
>
>    The problem with this kind of *cough* feature *cough* is the triggering
>conditions - any false positive is a disaster waiting to happen, and anyone
>who's been around software for the last few decades knows that no
>hardware/software test is 100% reliable. Microsoft is trodding the well
>known path followed by most mature companies: they got big, their initial
>visionaries have left, and they're getting increasingly stupid about
>preserving existing revenues.
>
>
>"Adam" <mmmmm_beer_mmmm_donuts@moes> wrote in message
>news:4524e566@w3.nls.net...
>> Rich Gauszka wrote:
>>> looks like the wga trojan has been *enhanced* for Vista. MS will let you
>>> boot but they won't let you run any programs  except the brower for an
>>> hour.
>>> I wonder how long it will take for stories of legitimate user lockouts to
>>> hit the net?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Great news. The harder piracy becomes the more attractive non "piracy
>> protected" systems become.
>>
>> Given the fun & games wrt WGA, I'd not trust a production machine which
>> could lock itself at someone else's behest.
>>
>> I can just imagine being in an airport lounge somewhere with a locked
>> machine & the joy that would be if I had a meeting/presentation at the
>> other end of a taxi ride.
>>
>> So ...the more MS do this the better for Software diversity.
>>
>> Adam
>

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