piracy

Hello! (My first thread here!) My mom bought a laptop online (I know how it sounds...). It's Lenovo's Thinkpad x240. Problem is, it appears to be running a pirated Windows 7. (Also it's not a clean installation, but just a computer that somebody used for some time. So I'd like to format it.) I...

Hey there, I want to do a fresh installation, I have an OEM copy of Windows 7 Home Premium and I'm entitled to use the software. The people at Microsoft customer service are all foreign, very difficult to understand and won't budge an inch on anything. Worst customer service I've ever...

Yesterday the annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHec) in Shenzen, China kicked off and there were several interesting announcements made by the Windows team. read more Continue reading...

According to an article over at Winbeta anyone using Windows 7 or 8 regardless of whether it's a legit version or not will be offered a free upgrade: ref: http://www.winbeta.org/news/microsoft-says-pirated-versions-windows-will-also-get-free-upgrade-windows-10

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The forum rules are sometimes a little hard to find for some folk so I'm just going to post a copy here.

Hey everybody if you don't know you should know my name is Steve Austin ( not being offensive just havin fun ) so i have Windows 7 x64 pro and i wanna go to windows 8.1 as i am a student i went to dream spark and got windows 8.1 license key and the software to download through SDM ( Secure...

Testing, evaluating, and researching the Windows 8 pre-release: What to avoid. 7955.0.x86fre.fbl_srv_wdacxml.110228-1930 is fake. File size: 2.47 GB (2,657,079,296 bytes) MD5: 40861a02cb14b0d2d7930910db6cc6e4

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can someone find me a windows vista iso with a non-cracked product key? (NO TORRENTS torrenting copies of microsoft windows is illegal and may accuse me of software piracy)

The principal engineer for Nokia's WP7 and WP8 devices has demonstrated, in rather frank detail, how to pirate Windows 8 Metro apps, how to bypass in-app purchases, and how to remove in-game ads. These hacks aren't exactly easy, but more worryingly they're not exactly hard either. Source...

You might have heard reports that Microsoft has accidentally been giving away free licenses to Windows 8 Pro. Sorry, but that's not true. It's just another move in the long cat-and-mouse game between Microsoft and the pirates. Source: Yahoo! News

8:35 AMCopyright enforcement might be getting out of hand in Scandinavia. As anti-piracy groups and copyright owners continue to work with authorities to curtail piracy in the region, police this week raided the home of a 9-year-old suspect and confiscated her “Winnie the Pooh” laptop...

Users running pirated copies of Windows 8 Pro can reportedly upgrade to a fully licensed and permanently activated version of the OS by simply installing a free Windows 8 Media Center upgrade offered by Microsoft. Link Removed

my windows 7 came with my used computer. suddenly i am getting a notice my windows 7 may be a pirated copy. i changed no components to my computer. currently it seems to still be working (except background settings). it says i can't get updates. do i need to buy new windows 7 software...

Unfortunately it seems a few bad apples have spoiled it for everyone else once again. See the supplied report for details: Such a shame that greed has once again triumphed.... Reference: Microsoft adds more restrictions to MSDN/TechNet users [Update] - Neowin

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