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Not sure how true this is, but in Malaysia if you have a dodgy Windows XP look out!

http://themalaysianlife.blogspot.com/2008/08/pirated-windows-xp-will-experience.html


"Starting Tomorrow (Wednesday), if you are using pirated copies of Microsoft Windows XP Professional operating system on your computer and connect to the Internet, your computer display is going be "blacked out" and the screen icons on your computer will not be visible, warned Microsoft Malaysia.

According to news reports, of the approximately 8.6 million users of Windows XP Pro in Malaysia, about 3 million are pirated copies and expected to experience the “blackouts".

If you are using a pirated copy of Windows XP Pro and your computer experience a blackout, you can get your computer working normally by resetting the desktop background, then everything will return to normal. But after 1 hour, the black screen will reappear and you must reset the desktop background again. This will keep hapening until you purchase a genuine Windows XP Pro from Microsoft currently sold at RM580.

Apparently pirated Windows XP Home edition will not be affected by this, as yet. Microsoft is targeting businesses first, and letting home users off the hook, for the mean time.

Note that Microsoft has stopped selling Windows XP Pro in the market, so you may have to buy Windows Vista instead. If your computer cannot run Windows Vista, then you'd have to buy a new computer or upgrade your current computer."


I don't know if this just a scare rumour, but you never know. Microsoft have done a "nag" message for pirated XP but can they do the above?

Thankfully mine is legit:bannana:
 
Not sure how true this is, but in Malaysia if you have a dodgy Windows XP look out!

http://themalaysianlife.blogspot.com/2008/08/pirated-windows-xp-will-experience.html


"Starting Tomorrow (Wednesday), if you are using pirated copies of Microsoft Windows XP Professional operating system on your computer and connect to the Internet, your computer display is going be "blacked out" and the screen icons on your computer will not be visible, warned Microsoft Malaysia.

According to news reports, of the approximately 8.6 million users of Windows XP Pro in Malaysia, about 3 million are pirated copies and expected to experience the “blackouts".

If you are using a pirated copy of Windows XP Pro and your computer experience a blackout, you can get your computer working normally by resetting the desktop background, then everything will return to normal. But after 1 hour, the black screen will reappear and you must reset the desktop background again. This will keep hapening until you purchase a genuine Windows XP Pro from Microsoft currently sold at RM580.
Apparently pirated Windows XP Home edition will not be affected by this, as yet. Microsoft is targeting businesses first, and letting home users off the hook, for the mean time.

Note that Microsoft has stopped selling Windows XP Pro in the market, so you may have to buy Windows Vista instead. If your computer cannot run Windows Vista, then you'd have to buy a new computer or upgrade your current computer."

I don't know if this just a scare rumour, but you never know. Microsoft have done a "nag" message for pirated XP but can they do the above?

Thankfully mine is legit:bannana:

Recently I have to reinstall XP, the licence underneath the laptop was invalided. I have to ring up a number that came up on the screen and they needed to verify it only installed in one pc then only will they regenerate a new licence number.:D
 
Not sure how true this is, but in Malaysia if you have a dodgy Windows XP look out!

Doubt it.

Rumours work rather well in Malaysia. This is one of the more exciting side effects of having a press that is pretty much controlled by the government.
 
It's a load of old nagware apparently.
 

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