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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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NickMax (1 replies)
Re: Microsoft's Stance on Piracy Affects Us All 2008-11-20
Name another company which is responsible for supporting stolen... (1 replies)
Microsoft's Stance on Piracy Affects Us All 2008-11-20
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Re: Microsoft's Stance on Piracy Affects Us All 2008-11-21
Oliver
I mean that autoupdate is a passive patch mechanism versus the web based system. I agree that there are some users who likely would not download a patch without the automated download from AU. This is why slipping WGA into that stream of updates seems like a particularly bad idea to me.

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