Wat update - yes/no?

this is now a mute point the update has already been cracked the day it came out.

yeah your right, theres a crack already in progress for it, and when they release an update for that crack, another crack will be released, its a never ending cycle that microsoft cannot win, pirating is imposible to stop considering the ratio of people downloading it to the ratio of people trying to stop it. still, microsoft is sneaky and knew this update was coming long before seven was released. This is just another move to make windows more secure which is good in a way, but losing the trust of customers is retarded

KCINREBAK said:

yeah your right, theres a crack already in progress for it, and when they release an update for that crack, another crack will be released, its a never ending cycle that microsoft cannot win, pirating is imposible to stop considering the ratio of people downloading it to the ratio of people trying to stop it. still, microsoft is sneaky and knew this update was coming long before seven was released. This is just another move to make windows more secure which is good in a way, but losing the trust of customers is retarded

actually microsour has already won. who do you really think released most of the copies to the torrent / p2p sites, microsour themselves. people that work for microsoft created most of the cracks. it is nothing more than free advertising for them.

mpcrsc562 said:

the whole thing is stupid to me, pardon my interruption.

if you don't want to install it the update, don't.

it's ironic, though, that you don't want your os "phoning home," but to ensure that your os is running safely, you'll let your antivirus / antispyware do what it needs to do automatically...

if you're technically savvy enough to not install it then you're equally as technically savvy enough to handle any problems that may arise down the line.

(and speaking of control, the only thing any of us truly has control over is what we create. you want an os you want to control? make your own. linux is free, but it still needs patching too... )

actually every three days i manually check for any and all updates to my software, including antivirus / spyware / firewall, and on the second wednesday of every month i manually chec k windows update and manually pick and chose which updates to manually install. i have never and never will allow anything to phone home automatically. as previously stated myself just like most users believe once we pay for our copy of the os it is our copy, microsoft can believe that they are just allowing us to use it if they want. as for the wat is was cracked the day after it came out. so now it is a mute point. microsoft will update it, it will get cracked again.

mpcrsc562 said:

Staple Head said:

as for the wat is was cracked the day after it came out. so now it is a mute point. microsoft will update it, it will get cracked again.

i read about that, but from what i read, both ms and the cracker community will be hard at work from now on. the wat is supposed to check every 90 days if the particular files have been tampered with.

The installer also creates a new Windows Activation Technologies folder in Task Scheduler and adds two new entries to it. The first task is configured to run at the next restart and then to reset the task trigger so that it runs again 90 days later. The second task is configured to run a week after the first one. When the first task ran successfully on my test systems, the Next Run Time was set to a date 90 days in the future for the first task, and one week after that new date for the second task. (According to Microsoft, the purpose of the second task is to allow the update to run weekly after it detects and repairs a system whose activation files have been tampered with.)

According to the initial settings of the main Scheduled Task created during installation of KB971033, it is set to run at the next startup. After it runs successfully, it sets its Next Run Time to 90 days later.

Windows Activation Technologies: an unauthorized inside look | Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report | ZDNet.com

the current wat crack removes all the wat files allows you to install kb971033 and pass the 90 day check.

I guess I am stupid, but I still fail to see why anyone would actually want to install this?

What am I missing?