“As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours.”

--Bill Gates

Summary: Windows Activation Technologies fail miserably and permit infinitely many copies of Vista 7 to just float "out there"

THIS has already been discussed in IRC, but here is the original source with evidence about Vista 7.

Despite already has perfect and reliable Windows 7 activation crack based on royalty-OEM mechanism, hackers have managed to come out with a new activation crack method as an alternative to BIOS loader and OEM BIOS mod, which effectively bypass the activation requirement of the installed Windows 7 system, by removing and disabling Windows Activation Technologies (WAT).

It was exactly the same with Vista back in 2007.

This is not bad news for Windows; in a way, it may be part of the plan, but it demonstrates Microsoft's incompetence with technology. For entertainment purposes, here is another new article whose media component is self explanatory. ⬆