MS Kills Office Anti-Piracy Program

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    MS Kills Office Anti-Piracy Program


    Posted: 20 Dec 2010
    Microsoft last week killed an anti-piracy service that checked whether customers were running legal copies of Office, saying that the program had "served its purpose."

    ZDNet blogger Ed Bott first reported on Microsoft's move after a tipster pointed him toward a support document on the company's site.
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    Finally. Maybe they are coming around with not inconveniencing legit customers.

    Or, they are developing something even more ridiculous.
    Posted By: Win7User512
    20 Dec 2010



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    Thanks for that information.
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    jfar said:
    Thanks for that information.
    Jfar! You're back! Good to see you again. How is the old west holding up?
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    Good to be back, Howdy Pardner.
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    Win7User512 said:
    Microsoft last week killed an anti-piracy service that checked whether customers were running legal copies of Office, saying that the program had "served its purpose."

    ZDNet blogger Ed Bott first reported on Microsoft's move after a tipster pointed him toward a support document on the company's site.
    More...

    Finally. Maybe they are coming around with not inconveniencing legit customers.

    Or, they are developing something even more ridiculous.
    Maybe finally is Microsoft realizing that Genuine Advantage is Genuine Crap.
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    Darician said:
    Maybe finally is Microsoft realizing that Genuine Advantage is Genuine Crap.
    Couldn't have said it better myself, try as they might to get rid of the piracy all they do is just encourage it if you ask me. Then again I don't really think anyone liked the Genuine Advantage, especially people who are rather stringent on updates, but just think about it, you have an update, and it says its an important security update, which is downloaded and installed automatically, but then later you realize that the update in particular didn't provide any additional security at all, instead all it does is tell Microsoft whether or not the OS you use is "Genuine" or not, and then Microsoft pulls the plug on you, altering your computer's use until you buy a "Genuine" license, now this might be just me, or does this sound like those false antivirus programs that prevent your computer from running until you buy a licence for the fake antivirus, yeah sure one is a real product and the other is not, but the things that they do, IE: altering the computers usage, whether it be putting it to sleep every 2 hours, or even preventing it from starting at all. It just sounds..........i dunno wrong somehow to be messing up a users computer...........I mean seriously Bill Gates even said "If people are going to be stealing, I want them to steal from ME!"
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    Other than being a headache for legit user(s) it has done little at all to stop people pirating the software.
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  7. Kit
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    Exactly, its pretty much like a product war, Microsoft tries to beef up security via things like this, and then the pirates just make new ways to get around the code.........and to be honest i would know as i USED to run a pirated version of XP Professional.
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    Win7User512 said:
    they are developing something even more ridiculous.
    This. Being a member of the MSDN for quite a while now, I do believe that they will look for something way more preposterous.

    Most of the pirated copies of Office I see are corporate editions, with valid keylists that have been leaked.
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    Usually "security measures" become annoyances that encourage piracy
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