http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/Mar 10th 2007 7:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/
What a low blow
]]>Mar 10th 2007 7:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/Because all you have to do is download the ISO and install it. No activation, just easy pirating. Thanks, Apple!]]>Mar 10th 2007 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/Mar 10th 2007 7:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/-
http://www.WindowsVistaUserGuide.com]]>Mar 11th 2007 4:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/
Well, no need when Jobs and his cult locks in their users via hardware instead.]]>Mar 10th 2007 7:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/
Unbiased reporting at its finest[/sarcasm]]]>Mar 10th 2007 7:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/Mar 10th 2007 7:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/May 9th 2007 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/Mar 10th 2007 7:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/
Though I do love OS X because I could set it up within minutes of turning it on.

Though because you are locked into Apple hardware piracy is not such a problem as it is for Microsoft. I think software pirates suck, they would not walk into a store and steal the physical copy. They are theives without balls :/]]>Mar 10th 2007 9:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/
Yeah... What was that about not being Mac-biased.

I think because of engadget and gizmodo, it seems that about 60%-75% of people in the world use a Mac, not 3%-5%]]>Mar 10th 2007 7:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/
Jay]]>Mar 11th 2007 8:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/
If you consider what documents, files, mp3's, video, pics or files in general private... well, your spyware tracks it for you! In fact, it does it on a daily, weekly basis. However it is in a hidden folder, lol.... please check:
C:/Documents and settings/user/local settings/history

But like I said, WINSPYWARE has these in a HIDDEN folder.

Would you like additional examples?!
]]>Mar 11th 2007 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/Mar 11th 2007 3:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/Mar 10th 2007 8:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/I have Win Vista installed on my Mac but always deatic=vated after the 30 day period.
Please help.]]>Mar 30th 2008 6:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/Mar 10th 2007 8:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/
truth hurts lol]]>Mar 10th 2007 8:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/
You brave soul. I know it's difficult to state such things even jokingly as the MS fanboys and hired blogger bullies will come out of the woodwork claiming Engadget is biased.

I applaud you, Mr. Quilty-Harper, for standing up in face of the Microsoft monopoly. Citizens like yourself are the reason why the Redmond empire is crumbling.

Why upgrade to Vista when you can upgrade past it? We now have a choice.

http://www.apple.com/getamac

http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/]]>Mar 10th 2007 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/Mar 10th 2007 10:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/Mar 10th 2007 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/
If you install a pirate version of their OS, at least you're installing it on their hardware. Cracking a kernel to remove a hardware tie in is a huge achievement but it still isn't enough to guarantee that pirates could use OS X to its full potential on generic hardware without jumping through a lot of hoops.

The innovations of both Microsoft and Apple have really led the personal computer to where it is today. We've come quite a long way in the past two decades alone.

I'm extremely disappointed with the tone of this article. "A pity then that Redmond's fired up photocopiers technically can't copy a function that -- purposely -- doesn't exist in Mac OS X." Think about what you say before you carve it in stone for millions to read (I wonder if this will come back to me), these are different markets and shouldn't be compared straight across.

As a side note, I personally have no problem taking 2 minutes to activate a piece of software I'll be using for years, it's not like it requires the cd to be in the drive at all times, heh.]]>Mar 10th 2007 8:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/
how hard is it really to click 'activate my copy of windows'? i'm a mac user and i use os x, but really, at least try to make sense when you deliver the low blows]]>Mar 10th 2007 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/Mar 10th 2007 8:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/Mar 10th 2007 8:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/
Yeah, I see your point, since activating my copy of Vista through the "normal activation procedure" took me all of 3 minutes. As for the Redmond swipe, I shan't even acknowledge such bias with a response.]]>Mar 10th 2007 8:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/
Proof; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tq7yykR-DM

Why do I say this? "I just took the camera and put a cord from the camera to the computer..."

If you're willing to pay it up the arse for a $5k machine with $1k parts in it... go right ahead, but it's your money and you're probably computer illiterate.]]>Mar 10th 2007 9:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/My set up was only half that with dual Dual Core 2.66, 4gig of ram, 250 gig HD, NVidia GeForce 7300 & all the other bells & whistles that are pretty much standard on tehse machines. I am in an office surrounded by Dells, high end low end - and I'll tell you what, it is like having a Benz in a parking lot full of Hyndais.

Keep on fooling yourself, Microsoft needs drones.]]>Mar 12th 2007 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/Apr 4th 2007 12:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/
Conrad My friend, I bet that remark was just made to start a flame war, Its Ignorancy to its finest, comment this fanboish seriously dont belong in a place like engadget, where most of it's readers have at least some college of education.

Microsoft is not in the hardware business and you should know this better than anybody else, Apple is, they dont make money with software, their real profits come from your beloved mac sales, even OSX is copied, crack, or whatever you still need to buy their hardware to run it, while MS dosn't have this advantage.



]]>Mar 10th 2007 9:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/Mar 10th 2007 9:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/Mar 10th 2007 9:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/
You lost all objectivity and credibility with that last sentence. Makes it really hard to ever read anything else you write, and take it at face value. ]]>Mar 10th 2007 10:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/
"Dear Microsoft, your latest product is EXACTLY what I want; DRM, super-invasive anti-piracy tools that assume I am a p2p-kiddy, etc. I hope your next Windows version (2009) contains more of the same"]]>Mar 10th 2007 10:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/Mar 10th 2007 10:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/
But thanks for playing.]]>Mar 10th 2007 11:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/Mar 10th 2007 11:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/Mar 10th 2007 10:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/Mar 10th 2007 10:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/
http://www.winsupersite.com/

http://www.internet-nexus.com/

http://microsoft.blognewschannel.com/

Won't have to worry about anything negative pertaining to MS there. All the rich, gooey Microsoft butt-hugging you can handle.]]>Mar 10th 2007 10:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/And for you Apple fanbois out there, the more you act like Steve Job is your king, the more you make ppl think you are a bunch of dumbass idiots. We live in a capitalistic society where competition is encourage and the market will decide who the winners or losers are with their money. Last time I check, something like 95% of the world's computers run "Windoze" as you idiots called it. Hmmm...then what percentage of the world are using Macs? So those boys at Redmond must be doing something right. The market and the public always get it right in the end. Just like with the Ipods, if it's a "desirable" product overall then the ppl will buy it. So shut your bias pie-hole and let the products speak for themselves. ]]>Mar 10th 2007 10:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/
Check mate.]]>Mar 10th 2007 11:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/
lol you are right! and I think Mc Donald's must be doing something right too. And I for one think it's their cooking, choice ingredients, and that special ambience of all their many many many world-wide eating places.

And people who think that popularity doesn't mean quality are probably commies, euro-trash or even illegal enemy combatants who hate America. And you just know that all mac fanboys want commie free healthcare. retards. I hope they all drop dead cos they can't afford a doctor.

So, I'm with you man. And God bless Microsoft and all who sail in her.

keep smiling

waddo
http://www.waddo.net/]]>Mar 10th 2007 10:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/Mar 11th 2007 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/
Now, that covers new computers

But for the used computer, you will have to purchase an upgrade (or a full version should you be unlucky) of Vista or OSX. It is in this department that the security issues are more apparent. With Mac, I could just borrow my friends' CD, or download the ISO. While it may cause a slight loss in revenue for the company, it also works in their favor, bringing bigger numbers to the current OS leaving less in the old versions which lose compatibility as time goes on. If you want to be left behind in a system where you have to pay for upgrades or physically crack the operating system into working in such a way it's not designed to, stay with Windows. Personally, the security and looks of OSX trump anything M$ could 'copy'.

M$ fanbois - take aim and prepare to return fire!

People don't realise that the cost of a computer is not on the sticker, but at the end of its life]]>Mar 10th 2007 11:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/Mar 10th 2007 11:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/Mar 10th 2007 11:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/Seriously?
These guys never claimed to be elite journalists. If you can't take some of their own humor on their own god damn BLOG then leave, but quit the bitching about "journalistic integrity." Maybe you are all too thick to understand that that was intended to be a joke. Guess what... Jokes are funny, laugh at them and move on. If you want "true journalism", thats great; as far as I can remember, every single Engadget article I have read has had a [Read] link. Go there for your journalism, read here for a summary and commentary(maybe even a few of those joke things i mentioned earlier!), make your comments and quit bitching.]]>Mar 11th 2007 12:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/10/vista-activation-crack-2-auto-renews-the-30-day-grace-period/
"Disclaimer: This article is for educational and informational purpose only."

Yah right. If that is the case I'm Bill Gates. Yah know I wish people who post this shit would give up the false pretense that its for BOOMING VOICE "educational purposes only". No one on the face of this planet buys it for a nanosecond. A chicken is a chicken, a politician is a politician, a robber is a robber, and a person posting a how to guide is... a well you get the idea.
I'm not commenting on if it’s right or wrong. I have a free copy of Vista sitting on my desk. I haven't decided on which system is going to get it so its nice I at least have this option of trying it on every system for a protracted amount of time before I choose. But lets at least be honest here. This ain’t for educational purposes. Period. End of story. Close the book. G’night.
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