From: mike 


You are correct.  Microsoft, with WGA, has embarked down a slippery slope. 
I wonder if Microsoft will break out the amount of R&D dollars
dedicated to this WGA nonsense in their quarterly reports to shareholders?

 /m


On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:07:06 +0200, "Antti Kurenniemi"
 wrote:

>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...
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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