It's official: Pirates crack Vista at last

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A genuine crack for Windows Vista has just been released by pirate group Pantheon, which allows a pirated, non-activated installation of Vista (Home Basic/Premium and Ultimate) to be properly activated and made fully-operational.

Unlike cracks which have been floating around since Vista RTM was released in late November, this crack doesn’t simply get around product activation with beta activation files or timestop cracks - it actually makes use of the activation process. It seems that Microsoft has allowed large OEMs like ASUS to ship their products with a pre-installed version of Vista that doesn’t require product activation – apparently because end users would find it too inconvenient.

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SFilip

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> Microsoft is gonna go crazy
What else is new?

Well it would seem that as long as there is a commercial product there will be a pirated version around. Despite everything it seems that not even MS managed to prevent this.
 

hi_im_bob

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But still many of the people that actually want Vista want to buy it legally.
 

SFilip

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> It's not in their interest to do so.
Care to explain?
 

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Now Vista will be obtainable by people even if they can't afford it or can't get it because they are all sold out. That then means more people will try Microsoft's programs and if they like it Microsoft will have on more person who loves their program and one more computer with their program on it and being used and one more of their competitions programs that won't be bought. So It's pretty much a win-win situation.
 
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