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>you mean that Vista's NEW Technology in software >protection has been sucessfully cracked even >before it's official release date?[/color]
Not a crack. It's just turning the rtm into evaluation period like the rc's all.
The rtms will also no longer function after June 2007.

As long as Windows itself thereafter goes online and activates succesfully as "genuine" it is not a crack and I think it is in a way even legit if this works.

A crack would avoid activation total or disable the Software Licensing files / replace with dummie-files and would never contact the activation servers.
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>i've read another Chinese thread that people are working on >how to stop the clock inside Vista from working, so that >"times up" or "re-activation" never happened.[/color]

Yes, that is what I am also reading.

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>is Viper from Microsoft (Russia)? I know that some people >who worked in Microsoft (China) do exactly the same >thing, get the Volume License edition of Chinese Office >2007 to the public secretly. Publish internal confidential >emails over the Internet. helping others in ways to >workaround with WGA, SPP, VLK etc...
>have you seen the movie "The Departed" ?[/color]

I don't know where he is but that this is the guy that did leak all the rtm builds out to public and mastered the isos. He explained how he smuggled the files out of msft company many times in the irc channel.

Talk to him at #winbeta ( irc.winbeta.org ) - and ask him.He's often there.
MSFT piracy department might be interested.So have your chat.also they do serve the iso "hidden" in the other channel ( known to those interested - I will not name it here )

More I wont say. I just want to make clear that I am not interested in piracy and in fact do own copies of Windows XP and aerlier that I have paid real $$$ for - so will it be with Vista.

In fact I already have preordered HomePremium via the Express Upgrade option, so don't worry, I am no warez kid.

I am using the rtm in the exact edition I have paid for as trial until my package will arrive in the next two months or so. that is in no way piracy, as I will then activate it with my own key then.

All I said is that the trick to actiavte as eval is true and working, and that other ways are figured out by those that really want to steal the product.

But I see with interest all the attempts to crack and hack spp.
As I personally believe spp is going to be the horror for legit customers if the mechanism will fail, I will keep an eye on the cat & mice play just to stay informed what's going on behind the nice new windows.

So. By now no more statements to "cracking" the rtm.

MS Antipiracy : here is your info who is to blame for the leak, the rest is known and said.

HastaLavista