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Old 04-13-2007, 01:30 AM
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Lightbulb Microsoft Responds to Reported OEM BIOS Hacks

Hope you see the lite... MS is like Ford, they have a NEW IDEA or An OLD Idea. your guess ??

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I know many of you are aware of reports of hacks that attempt to exploit our OEM BIOS based activation. We're aware of this type of hack and I wanted to take a minute to describe how these work and how we plan to respond.

First, what is OEM BIOS based activation?

Here's a little more information on how OEM BIOS based activation works. This form of product activation is also known as OEM Activation or just OA, which is how Microsoft refers to it and how I will refer to it in this post. Back at the launch of Windows XP when Microsoft introduced Windows Product Activation, we recognized that as easy as end-user activation is, it still represented an extra step.
http://www.winbeta.org/comments.php?shownews=6852
To read the full article. Very interesting, and good reading,

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I do want to say something here about how we plan our responses. As I've said in the past, we focus on hacks that pose threats to our customers, partners and products.
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