{"id":428,"date":"2006-10-05T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T10:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/10\/05\/microsoft-aims-to-scuttle-pirated-copies-of-vista\/"},"modified":"2006-10-05T16:14:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-05T10:44:00","slug":"microsoft-aims-to-scuttle-pirated-copies-of-vista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/10\/05\/microsoft-aims-to-scuttle-pirated-copies-of-vista\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft aims to scuttle pirated copies of Vista"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> Microsoft Corp&#8217;s <\/strong> upcoming Windows Vista computer operating system will include technology that is designed<strong> to prevent pirated copies from fully functioning<\/strong>, the software giant said. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Reduced <\/strong>functionality is <strong>already <\/strong>a part of the   Windows XP activation process, but Windows Vista will have a reduced functionality mode that is <strong>enhanced<\/strong>, Microsoft said on its Web site on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said the upcoming releases of <strong>Windows Vista and also Windows Server &#8220;Longhorn<\/strong>&#8221; will be the first two products to ship with the new anti-piracy measures included, but more Microsoft products will eventually adopt the technology.<\/p>\n<p>Windows Vista systems must activate with Microsoft as genuine<strong> within 30 days <\/strong>and failure to do so will result in &#8220;<strong>reduced functionality mode<\/strong>&#8221; until successful validation occurs, Microsoft said.<\/p>\n<p>Customers that use genuine versions of Windows Vista will<strong> get an enhanced set of features <\/strong>that will not work on non-genuine or unlicensed versions of Vista, it said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20061005\/tc_nm\/microsoft_piracy_dc;_ylt=AiiKawSE439CIyz6AunvYlEjtBAF;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Corp&#8217;s upcoming Windows Vista computer operating system will include technology that is designed to prevent pirated copies from fully functioning, the software giant said. Reduced functionality is already a part of the Windows XP activation process, but Windows Vista will have a reduced functionality mode that is enhanced, Microsoft said on its Web site [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-microsoft","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}