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The idea, said a company representative, is to let customers more easily and directly upgrade to a higher edition of Windows Vista from within their current edition. Vista is scheduled to reach consumers in January.
Users would be installing only the version of the operating system that they had purchased, as the product key would be version-specific. Versions range from Starter to Ultimate editions.
Asked if this system meant upgrades would be cheaper, as production and retail costs for Microsoft will be lowered, the representative declined to give pricing details.
The Microsoft representative also denied that Windows Anytime Upgrade would prove an attractive target for hackers, saying Vista was "the most secure version of Windows yet."
David Meyer of ZDNet UK reported from London.
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reporting!
I'm not sure why this is being treated as news.
Gentlemen.. start your stopwatches!
That is, of course, once the OS is actually shipped!
once it is cracked I expect major lawsuits coming from MS, that
would be the only reason to do this because its going to be cracked
no matter how secure Windows is. I would be willing to bet MS
lawyers are getting ready to file suits as we speak, that way all they
have to do is fill in the name/names of who did it.
Enough with the ! though.
Tops.
at the outside.
want to pound on M$ ...
A commercial install version that doesn't require activation is all MS has to worry about getting hacked and released into the public.
Genuine windows advantage will probably come for vista rescue.
Both the hacking community, and the crazy people who just really don't want to have microsoft watching them, have already found ways to get rid of the genuine advantage junk. I doubt that vista will go for long before people find a way.
Isn't that what they've said already again and again and again
and....
Release Candidate OS since NT4. It's built into any client or
signed component or control that is coupled with a service.
WinXP SP2 is the first release OS "bait" as you so cleverly put it.
You can't update to SP2 or any SP2 dependant updates from MS
servers without your product key being signed or verified by the
"Genuine" architecture. They still don't cross reference the ID of
the "owner" of the issued product key with any of these updates.
If someone doesn't like the idea of being hassled for running
unlicensed or pirated software by the company who produces
and distributes its bits they should stop buying it from them.
Else start using their software by less clever but legitamete
means or start running another OS.
I hope Adobe doesn't file another lawsuit against Microsoft for 'copying' this concept.. ;)
The other thing to remember is that only properly keyed software will be able to download patches. With the number of exploits in Vista, I don't think running it unpatched will be smart.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_computing
ill bet they are installing this into hardware as we speak! id be afraid of this!
I'll just be interested in the one for gaming and work.
Let me guess the new vista will require yet another new version of messenger that pops up all the time when i read my hotmail. I am so sick of popups. that goes for internally from the OS and websites!!
This might prove to be true. But really, there could be a dozen hacks, 100 pieces of spyware floating around + 50 misc. exploits and they could still say that.
It will be an amazing achievement if the security record of Vista is 1/10 as good as OSX or Linux after a year.
It's amazing that given how rock solid Linux is and the fact that it can be had for no money it's still not even 1/10th as popular an OS as Windows. Oh that's right...everyone is stupid and the fanboys are on to something that the rest of us just don't get because we're not as smart as they are.
- Vista: Homeland Security Distaster
- by Sumatra-Bosch September 26, 2006 9:24 PM PDT
- Within hours of its release, hackers will tear into Vista to find hooks for stealing home users and businesses' bank account credentials. Billions will be lost within hours. Banking and settlement systems will be shut down all over the world and central bankers will call for indictment of the company. Microsoft will call the publicity of the thefts "gross exaggerations by the company's infinite enemies in the press."
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- paranoid
- by Swagmar September 30, 2006 11:59 AM PDT
- And i thought i was paranoid.
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(42 Comments)The scandals will completely devastate the release of Vista and most businesses will refuse to deploy Vista when their IT staffs tell them the new OS will only attract even more attacks than patched XP systems. MS will be reduced to issuing press releases about victorious deployments in "a bakery in Ottawa" and "a car wash in Sierra Leone" which the press will reveals were bought by MS a week before the software was installed.
Ballmer, always regarded as completely insane and emotionally unstable, will disappear without a trace. Psychics will lead police to his final resting place, his station wagon, parked behind the IGA supermarket in Spokane where police will determine he had shot himself 6 times in the face, reloaded, and shot himself another six times in the kidneys, a story that will briefly provoke skeptical reactions from the press.