New Win7 Activation patch

[AnomalyNexus]

If your Windows 7 DVD fell off the back of a truck, you might wanna read this:

"The release of Windows 7 'Update for Microsoft Windows (KB71033)' will change the current activation and anti-piracy behavior of Windows 7 by triggering automatic 'phone home' operations over the Internet to Microsoft servers, typically for now at intervals of around 90 days. ... These automatic queries will repeatedly — apparently for as long as Windows is installed — validate your Windows 7 system against Microsoft's latest database of pirated system signatures (currently including more than 70 activation exploits known to Microsoft). If your system matches — again even if up to that time (which could be months or even years since you obtained the system) it had been declared to be genuine — then your system will be 'downgraded' to 'non-genuine' status until you take steps to obtain what Microsoft considers to be an authentic, validated, Windows 7 license. ... KB71033... is scheduled to deploy to the manual downloading 'Genuine Microsoft Software' site on February 16, and start pushing out automatically through the Windows Update environment on February 23. ... [F]or Microsoft to assert that they have the right to treat ordinary PC-using consumers in this manner — declaring their systems to be non-genuine and downgrading them at any time — is rather staggering."

 

[BeVonk!]

Considering that one only purchases access rights to the Windows OS and not ownership rights one can expect Microsoft to do whatever they like to manage access. One only really owns the hardware.

 

[DJNgoma]

The activation patch is more for system builders screwing their clients over, highly doubt that the people who use the current exploits would be dumb enough to install this. BeVonk!, one can remove the patch without any worry if pirating is your thing.