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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 2008-11-24
Anonymous
I totally disagree with this article.

So, a person who runs an illegal copy of Windows XP or Vista gets infected. Big deal. It happened because of their action of installing the pirated operating system.

Wow! They can't get all the security updates! Boo-Hoo!

They get infected. It serves the...

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