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Microsoft's Stance on Piracy Affects Us All
Oliver Day, 2008-11-14

For the last few years, Microsoft has wrestled with their stance on piracy. Pirated operating systems are just like legitimate operating systems in terms of their exposure to vulnerabilities: Users must install patches or they will be compromised.

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Microsoft's Stance on Piracy Affects Us All 2008-11-14
Anonymous
Have you actually done any investigation for this article? Security patches are free to download from Microsoft's site, with no need for license checks. So, basically, half your article is pointless.

The other half, on the other hand, is a good point - the one about stealth WGA 'updates'. Lots of people have been saying the same thing for a long time (since WGA was introduced, actually), so I'm not sure how worthy this subject is for an article at this stage, but that doesn't make the essence of it less valid.



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