Microsoft stops crippling "pirated" copies of Vist
Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 4:30 pm
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2227513,00.aspUsers whose systems are identified as counterfeit or have not been validated as genuine will be presented with clear and recurring notices about the status of their system and how to get a genuine copy.
This is a change in tactics from the current approach for Windows Vista, where counterfeit systems go into a state called reduced functionality mode, which essentially suspends, after 30 days, a number of features of the system until the user takes action to get genuine.