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Re:Windows 8 Arrives by engtech on Thursday October 25, 2012 @04:19PM (#4699342)
There is a grey area where you can have a Genuine copy of Windows that you paid for (and that can still Windows update) but was derived from an OEM license that was transferred to another machine.

This is still desirable compared to torrenting because a pirated copy will end up failing the Genuine check, will no longer get updates, and will happily be a part of some botnet some day.

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Re:Windows 8 Arrives by z92 on Thursday October 25, 2012 @11:15PM (#4700684)
That was a lot of years back. And then MS declared it will auto update and patch every XP, genuine or not.
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Re:Windows 8 Arrives by octopus on Friday October 26, 2012 @09:54AM (#4702141)
I really don't think it is a smart move to enable automatic upgrades on a pirated copy of Windows ...
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Re:Windows 8 Arrives by Evbn on Saturday October 27, 2012 @02:58AM (#4705613)
Why? If it is going to misbehave it doesn't care what settings you choose in Windows Update.
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Re:Windows 8 Arrives by plaguuuuuu on Thursday October 25, 2012 @07:33PM (#4700128)
From memory I think WGA was cracked..?

That said my current machine is Win7 enterprise that I somehow, if only through brute force rather than actual know-how, managed to convince that its install had been validated.

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