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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
I disagree with the recommendation. If people didn't pirate the OS in the first place (or just ran Linux and avoid this whole situation) we wouldn't have to worry about trying to patch those systems. It is not in MS's interest to not put Genuine checks in there update system or to just give out free...

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