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Written by Alex (nedge2k)
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Wednesday, 11 July 2007 07:02 |
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...er, I doubt it.
So I just ran Windows Update after my recent fresh install of Vista Home Premium and what greeted me upon reboot? "You may be a victim of software counterfeiting" oh and we're disabling Aero. Now, my copy of VHP came pre-installed on my laptop from PC World and when I fresh installed the other day, I did it from my recovery partition, also pre-installed. So, what gives MS? I'm running a perfectly legal copy of Vista and yet you've decided to give me grief for it?
So I clicked the link, which opened in Firefox, didn't work in Firefox (because MS are pigheaded) and got stuck in an endless loop of crap. I finally managed to copy the URL into IE7, download/install the WGA tool and sort it out but I shouldn't have had to in the first place!
The irony here of course is that people running cracked/patched copies of Vista have had no problems whatsoever with these latest updates. Bloody ridiculous! :roll:
Incidentally, if I was going to pirate Vista, why in God's name would I pirate Home Premium?
So, in summery, Microsoft disabled bits of my OEM pre-installed copy of Vista Home Premium because a recent update decided it may be counterfeit. Er..common sense Microsoft?
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