From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

The worrying part of all this is, that there are probably thousands of
people at MS working on all this nonsense who could instead be working on
making a better product... No way is this ever going to amount to anything
good.


Antti Kurenniemi

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in
message news:45974495{at}w3.nls.net...
> Looks like the wga team will have many sleepless nights
>
>
> From microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
> Thread FYI: The Chinese has found a way to improve KMS activation !!
> ----------------------
> The Chinese KMS servers are still running...
> One of the KMS servers, vbs.net.cn, according to the owner, has activated
> more than 20,000 clients in last 30 days.
> "The server is always busy. A client may have to try over and over again
> to
> get his Vista Business or Vista Enterprise activated." she said.
>
> What's new now?
> She found a better way to solve the heavy traffic problem and prevent the
> activation go abroad.
> "My intention is to provide free Vista to citizens in China"
> "I believe that Microsofts' policies in software piracy are being applied
> differently in China and rest of the world."
>
> Here is the update -
> A Chinese user who wants to activate his Vista Enterprise or Vista
> Business,
> should first visit the website, http://vbs.net.cn to view the current port
> number of the KMS server, vbs.net.cn
> The port number will get changed in every 30 min automatically.
>
> For example...
> say.. 2006-12-29 23.00 - 23.29, vbs.net.cn:7301
> then  2006-12-29 23.30 - 23.59, vbs.net.cn:1465
> then  2006-12-30 00.00 - 00.29, vbs.net.cn:7249
> and so on...
>
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>
>
>
> For XP, as long as a Volume License Key doesn't leak out of the territory
> of
> Mainland China, it's fine with Microsoft.
> The problem now is that the leaked Chinese VLKs get spread all over the
> world, a kid in France may using a Chinese VLK.
> That's what Microsoft doesn't want to see...
>
> The coming up new version of WGA comes with a feature called
> "Geographically
> blocked PID",
> that may solve the problem, let the Chinese having a free VLK and at the
> same time block them from being used in other regions.
>
>
>

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