With just a few days passing by after the monstrously hyped Vista got released, the Operating System is now taking up the most successful marketing strategy of Microsoft. Pirated copies. :-) It was just 4 months, actually two months before the release of first Edition of Vista that a grand white paper was released by Microsoft in the name Microsoft’s Software Protection Platform   which states this as a conclusion :

Windows Vista and Windows Server “Longhorn” will be among the first products from Microsoft to take advantage of the new Software Protection Platform, an innovative platform from Microsoft that strengthens anti-piracy technologies to help better protect customers and improve the overall licensing experience.

 Here is the recent edition of  Vista.

Some “Iranian”  hackers have managed to present the “fully-cracked” version of the operating system.

The pirated version is presented by an Iranian Software company and also has the possibility for its owner to have a legal serial number of the OS. With the legal serial number the users can easily activate the OS from Microsoft’s web site and enjoy all the benefits of buying a Pirated Original version of the OS.

Still better is the cost of the pirated version. While the original version of the OS is selling for around $650 you can easily get your hands to this pirated version for just $8. I don’t think this is the response that Microsoft expected from their ‘Most Advanced Operating System’.

source : http://www.ciocentral.org

(Pirated vista)