posted on Tuesday, July 13, 2004 10:38 PM
by
demiliani
The ridiculous news of the day...
I've read a lot of news and comments about the Windows XP SP2, but the news I've just read on TechTree.com is absolutely amazing...
Nikhil Rastogi writes here about the new security feature on XP SP2... he firstly says that "Microsoft may have found a much more destructive way to get rid off Illegal copies of Windows Xp than Service Pack1. Users installing SP1 on illegal copies would simply get a 'This is a pirated copy' error message. But now Microsoft has armed itself with a huge list of illegal CD keys ensuring that SP2 does not install, but also destroys the computer hard drive by rendering it unusable".
After that, a correction has appeared on the article: "It has been rumoured that the boot sector of the OS would be modified rendering the OS unusable".
Where these rumours come from? Really he thinks that MS would adopt these methods to avoid illegal copies? These methods are not completely legal... what about the users data? Why he don't think all the consequence that MS could have with these actions? They're only rumours... ridiculous rumours...