Windows Vista was launched about a week ago and even if hackers and crackers have been working on Microsoft’s new operating system since the start of November no one has managed to make a real activation crack, which Microsoft certainly is proud of. Although, there have been a constant flow of new ways to work around the activation, the last seems to be a crack from the group GHOST; “Windows.Vista.Crack.READ.NFO-GHOST”. This is just another way to work around the activation as you simply stop the timer.
Even if no one has been able to crack Vista’s activation it’s hard not to believe it will happen sooner or later. The question is what Microsoft is doing and will do to stop people from running pirated versions of Vista, which there certainly already are. Previously Microsoft has used Windows Genuine Advantage, which was also cracked by the community, and worst case scenario you had to put up with annoying messages and not being able to download updates and programs manually from Microsoft’s website.
