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Trusting Microsoft: Not Going to Happen

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OSWeekly.com; By Matt Hartley
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Our product activation servers perform a more rigorous analysis of the keys that are sent up for activation than the local key logic does. Producing keys that will ultimately activate is less likely than just hitting upon one that will pass the local logic.

What would happen if a key that was hit upon was also the same key in use by a legitimate customer? Really, this would boil down to a customer service issue and we would work to make sure that our customers are taken care of. But if anyone does hear of a report of a legit customer being refused a product activation on a genuine key please let us know.

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Great piece of work. But why bother to actually run Windows, legal or illegal, unless you have absolutely no choice.

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