Trust, but verify. That was good advice for dealing with the Soviet Union in its heyday, and it’s equally sound policy today when dealing with that other Evil Empire. You know, the one in Redmond?
Last month, Microsoft rolled out an update to its Windows Activation Technologies (WAT) platform in Windows 7. Everything you’ve read about KB971033 so far, including
my report last week, has been based on what Microsoft said it was going to do; in my earlier coverage, I gathered information from
blog posts, published
privacy policies, a
Knowledge Base article, and some one-on-one interviews. But can you really believe everything Microsoft tells you about its new Windows Activation Technologies update?
