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Tuesday, December 4 Vista drops its kill switch, pirates wonder what all the fuss is about Noticed that Microsoft's removed (or is going to in the next Windows Update, anyway) the kill switch which crippples Vista if the machine fails its WGA. Too many false positives spoil the OS. More about this on the relevant BBC article (and other articles around the web for that matter, I just like the BBC site). All the pirates proper are wondering what all the fuss is about - piracy of Vista has continued unabated since its launch, with patches and workarounds galore for the WGA checks and suchlike, so why is Microsoft even bothering to do this now? They've utterly failed with Vista, they should just drop it and revert to a previous point revision in the SVN where, at the very least, the Start Menu worked - and then build AROUND those smaller features, instead of making section developers have to recode their own sections due to the whims of the core dev team. And to think I thought XP was a mess until I used Vista... Christmas is nearly upon us, so look forward to seeing me looking grumpy in a santa hat again. December just wouldn't be the same without it. Labels: grumble, hello world, kerblam, kill switch, microsoft, vista, WGA, whinge, windows, windows update Dragged out of Christopher's memory and pasted into his blog at 12/04/2007 04:35:00 PM. Roughly. Blog ID: 2060156806331041534· | Permalink |
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