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.

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.

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.

It reads:

"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?...s=9987&catid=1

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