Pirated Copies of Vista About to Go 'Black?'

[Jorge]

Forget the "blue screen of death," users running bootleg copies of Windows Vista are soon to get screens to total darkness.
<p>Never one to take piracy lying down, Microsoft apparently sent an e-mail to a large Windows Vista distributor telling them point blank what will happen to bootleg Vista installations. </p>
<p>Titled "Pirated Vista -- A darkness descends!," the e-mail says that it has up to now had a hidden nuclear device of sorts that will detonate in "nongenuine versions" around the world. </p>
<p>It reads: </p>
"Good afternoon, as of this week, Microsoft has activated a function
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[cedler]

big willi's practical jokes. He's a star the barmy nut!

6 billion to make vista....
Linux isn't perfect but it's mostly free. And the software you can get for it is high quality.

It's a tacit admission of defeat to hackers who always bat last.

[ourthing2]

This is apparently a hoax.

http://www.winbeta.org/comments.php?shownews=9987&catid=1

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