Re: Crack Office XP

[bill_weiss () att net]

Blue Boar(BlueBoar () thievco com)@Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 09:54:38PM -0700:
> Nicolás Gómez wrote:
> > I went to the launching of the Office XP... in the entering of the Ballroom
> > they bring to you a bag with some products....One of them was a Office XP
> > trial for 30 days
> >
> > if someone has that crack or has some place to search for it, i'd appreciate
> > it
>
> Several people have already replied that "this is the wrong list", 
> or "go buy the software".  Including one guy who made that comment,
> and then included a serial number.  Go figure.
>
> Anyway, I let it through because there have been news stories that
> it has been cracked, and MS denies it.  I was hoping for an answer.
> Second, I was hoping for a discussion of how the copy protection 
> in XP products works.  Yes, it's a bit off-topic for vuln-dev,
> and I usually toss such queries.  However, this is going to affect a 
> lot more people, and I think it's also going to touch on privacy
> issues.

And here we thought you were losing your mind :)

I, personally, have no intentions of ever touching this OS, if I can.
But, some of my friends who are active in the warez scene have been running
beta builds of it, sometimes since the day they come out.  For more info, 
I refer you to this site:
http://winblowz.orcon.net.nz/whistler.html 
and, if that goes down, it's found at
http://kickme.to/winblowz98
And clicking on "Windows Whistler/XP"

Enjoy.

My personal feelings are that copy protection is a loser's game.
I've not seen one piece of software that a crack or keygen does not exist
for.  The only way to get paid for your software is to make it good enough
that people want to pay, or work off support (open source it).  That's not
exactly Microsoft's business model though, is it?