New Anti-Piracy Windows 7 Update "Phones Home" to Microsoft Every 90 Days

Thats an interesting read. The idea behind what that update will do to users systems does not sound good to me at all. Even if that helps to reduce piracy, I think Microsoft has gone to far with this update.

Its already good enough with the current Anti Piracing technologies that are already included in Windows 7. IMO you should only have to worry about Windows 7 being activated and known as a genuine system only once.

I despise the idea of Microsoft phoning home every 90 days and checking to see if your system is still genuine or not. I personally think that this update will hurt more users than it will help.

 

Thanks for the link. That article was also fascinating to read about. It just reinforces what I have already said in my previous post.

 

Doesn't get much easier then that.

 

OK, lets see....

Lauren Weinstein's Blog has an interesting title "Who Owns Your PC? New Anti-Piracy Windows 7 Update "Phones Home" to Microsoft Every 90 Days "...

The point is that is has nothing to do with your PC... the title should have been "Who Owns Windows on your PC? New Anti-Piracy Windows 7 Update "Phones Home" to Microsoft Every 90 Days "...

Now as most of you know the answer to that is Microsoft. You just have a license to use it, you do not own it (read your license!), and seen through that light one can see that Microsoft can do what they want to guarantee their bottom line.


The thing that bugs me about this is that this will be offered through Windows Update as an "˜Important’ update. That gives rise to these questions:

1. How many people with hacked Windows activations do use Windows Update?
2. Knowing that this update is 'on the way' (KB971033), how many of these will actively install it?

To me it seems Microsoft is (again) just going to go after users who (mostly) unknowing bought a PC from a shop that installed a non genuine Windows on the PC, while letting their customers believe otherwise.

For real piracy it will hardly do anything, and in the mean time it will create a lot of animosity toward Microsoft.

It is such a nice feeling to be considered a potential criminal, having to prove that you are not every so many months...

Well done!