Pirated Vista, Office 2007 Already on The Internet
In today's That-Was-Quick Department, pirates have already gotten their hands on Windows Vista and are circulating a "cracked" version of the operating system on the Internet. Vista and Office 2007 have just finished development and are being made available to corporate customers in advance of their January 30 release. But if you know where to look online, you can find both products already.
In the case of Vista, the purported "crack" isn't really a crack to get around the activation process. According to the techie hobbyist site Ars Technica, the hackers replaced components in the final code with bits from from earlier betas of Vista. This allows the would-be pirate to use a product key that worked with the betas and two release candidates and skip the entire activation process.
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