Windows Activation Technologies Update for Windows 7.

Someone in their youth that steals and uses windows for years will then later buy a computer (or 10) with windows installed or buy it and install it themselves when they enter the work force and have money and a conscious. (Most people clean up their act after they enter the work force and realize that you have to work to earn and their very livving often depends on other people not ripping them off)

Even Bill Gates understood this and is often quoted as saying such. (Though he was also one of the first to realize that software was a ton of work and was worth being paid for!)

But if someone switches to another OS and uses that through their "formitable years" they may NOT buy a computer with windows on it ever. Most people get pretty set in their ways...

The lesson is: Make it inconvieninent enough to not copy that a normally honest person won't just install it on 50 computers at work and all their friends houses. But don't bother with the lower 5% of determented hackers which will consume 95% of your enforcement time and in the end merely cause you to lose future sales anyway.

And basically the reg code+activation mechanism does that job nicely. Tightnening the grip with this WAT stuff could backfire.

I really like Microsoft products, so I get more upset at them for "going astray" than a lot of haters do I think they do about 95% right, they just need to fix the 5% wrong. (IMHO! )

I still don't see any benefit to me installing the update (zero)....

I completely understand the benefit to MS

At some point in the future you will likely be locked out of some or all updates.

Till then though nothing, other than curiosity possibly :)

How can that possibly be considered as a benefit?

The ability to update is a good thing

Anybody here gotten false alarms yet? I haven't read through the thread yet. Mine told me my copy wasn't genuine, when it is, lol. But in any case I'm really happy MS is allowing you to remove and uninstall the update, and let those with it to still use their computers relatively fine.

EDIT: LOL someone just mentioned what I was saying as I was typing. Yea, false positive here, it's quite annoying.

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Neeevverrrmind. I tried uninstalling the update and even doing a system restore(it makes a restore point upon installation of the update) and it's still saying my copy isn't genuine. I don't even know where my product key is. Gahhh. Now I'm annoyed.

napilopez said:

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Neeevverrrmind. I tried uninstalling the update and even doing a system restore(it makes a restore point upon installation of the update) and it's still saying my copy isn't genuine. I don't even know where my product key is. Gahhh. Now I'm annoyed.

most people who has this and had this problem used the new make genuine feature that looks to see if it is fixable or not, 100% of what i have read have been fixed by it. have you done that? never-mind i just read your other post, apparently you are part of the 100% also

This update is still not available for me through Windows Update.