Vista Hack Served Directly by Microsoft

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SkipRearm loophole as a hack without commenting on the legality of the Windows Vista activation bypass. “Recently, it has been reported that an activation …

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17 March 2007 By: Marius Oiaga, Technology News Editor
Vista Hack Served Directly by Microsoft
A hack? Yes. But is it illegal? No.
With a combination of the slmgr.vbs -rearm command and resetting the SkipRearm Registry Key, users
could prolong the initial grace period of Windows Vista for up to a year, or even indefinitely. This is by no
means a crack, and the word is still out on if this workaround is legal or not, but Microsoft has qualified the
SkipRearm loophole as a hack without commenting on the legality of the Windows Vista activation bypass.
“Recently, it has been reported that an activation hack for Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system has
been identified,” David Lazar, the director of the company’s Genuine Windows program, told ComputerWorld.
“Although these reports are purely speculative at the moment, we are actively monitoring attempts to steal
Microsoft intellectual property.”
This is a very big deal, because if you take into consideration Lazar’s words, then this means that the
Windows Vista SkipRearm activation workaround is a hack served directly by Microsoft. The fact of the
matter is that the Redmond Company has documented the SkipRearm technique on the Microsoft Windows…