Microsoft Targets users of Pirated Vista Ultimate

**georbe** · 02-28-2009, 01:45 PM

Maybe Microsoft wants from their users to turn back to Windows XP again.

**Bone.W.Machine** · 02-28-2009, 04:13 PM

Originally Posted by georbe

Maybe Microsoft wants from their users to turn back to Windows XP again.

I don't think so

**SonsOfLiberty** · 02-28-2009, 11:38 PM

For all you wondering after you get the pop up, after about a day you will see this....

You have have 29 days to activate, check system...and you will see...no workaround yet.

**RedRansom** · 02-28-2009, 11:45 PM

Originally Posted by BoneWmachine

Originally Posted by georbe

Maybe Microsoft wants from their users to turn back to Windows XP again.

I don't think so

+1 and this can cause "reverse reaction" and ppl will think more about another OS like ubuntu

**iLOVENZB** · 03-01-2009, 02:05 AM

Originally Posted by RedRansom

Originally Posted by BoneWmachine

I don't think so

+1 and this can cause "reverse reaction" and ppl will think more about another OS like ubuntu

Hopefully, It will put Microsoft in some hot water and maybe they'll see the light in Open Source OS's still making some profit/respect.

**7th** · 03-01-2009, 11:23 PM

I had some problem like this but after installing Win7 in another HD... don't know how but everytime I try to access my Vista Ultimate HD as primary partition I get a message telling me that I need to buy a key and I have little access to the system =/

Well, at least Win7 is running better than vista but if anyone has a solution. I tried a lot of things already =/

**SonsOfLiberty** · 03-01-2009, 11:36 PM

Well for all having issues with Vista Ultimate, download the boot loader and it will be good

As there not blacklisting the OEM boot loader.

**Appzalien** · 03-06-2009, 03:50 PM

I have a funny feeling this is mostly a misdirection on their part, and that its not about disabling pirated versions as much as its about accessing them to figure out the best way to disable them when SP2 is installed. So its more about how to configure SP2 to disable the highest amount of OEM fixes they can find and collecting information to allow them to do that before its release. Perhaps the RC release is a better choice than the final in that case.