Is Your Windows Genuine??!

I received a surprise call yesterday night when I was having dinner with my sisters and my friends. It was my computer-expert cousin on the phone. He asked me if I have read the newspaper of the day. Well~ as usual, I don’t read newspaper. Eventually, I didn’t know what he wanted to tell me. He told me that the title of the newspaper on the front page was “Windows Warning”! Well, although I didn’t understand what it meant on the spot, but it really didn’t sound good! My cousin then explained what the whole article is about to me. I was… “WTF”…. You would definitely give the same reaction when continuing reading my blog!

Basically, the news was about our favorite operating system developer, Microsoft wants to achieve their aim by “better serving” Microsoft’s genuine users… (How “kind” of them~~!! @#$#@#XX) So, they are going to “tattoo” your screen with pop-up message “This copy of Windows is not genuine…”. The message will be permanently affixed to the operating system’s login screen, and a similar message will randomly pop up on the desktop whenever the computer is in use, until you buy and install a genuine copy of Windows which costs you FROM RM300++! @#%!XX$@@X#$ After clicking “RESOLVE LATER” button in the pop-up message window, the Windows still can operate like usual.
PC that have been tattooed will still be able to receive software updates for the operating system, but will not be allowed to download Internet Explorer 7.0 (IE7) and Windows Defender.

Well, by the perception of Microsoft, I understand that this would be a good step to prevent distribution of pirate version of windows, and of cause, the main reason is, can generate MORE revenue, oh~ common, your boss is already the richest man on earth!! Fine~! But how efficient would it be, you think the users would just buy the genuine version because of the pop-ups?? I’m sure home users like unties and uncles won’t spend another RM300 because of the irritating pop-ups. They don’t even mind using the old version of Internet Explorer and Windows Defender! Maybe the implementation would works on business users… God knows… \_(@.@)_/

WHY MALAYSIA???
Another question is… WHY MALAYSIA??? It mentioned that the anti-piracy move is being kicked off in five countries– the United States, Britain, New Zealand, Australia and Malaysia. WAT THE FUCK!!! Can you see the countries that fall in the group?? US, UK, NZ, AUS and…. Malaysia?? Common!!! I don’t understand how Malaysia would get involve in this play. US, UK, NZ, and AUS are DEVELOPED countries! Malaysia??? Well~~ Is that a strategy from Microsoft HQ to test if the move is efficient in developing country and sadly Malaysia is the lucky white mouse, or if “they” want to show to the world that “MALAYSIA BOLEH”. Even our neighbor country, Singapore which known as “Kiasu” country doesn’t get involved…

Pictures:

AT THE LOGIN SCREEN: A message stating ‘This copy of Windows is not genuine’ will be permanently tattooed to the bottom righthand corner of the login screen

From 26 April 06 onwards, your computer will be 'tattooed' by random pop-ups with the message "This copy of Windows is not genuine.."

Sources/ Further Readings:

Lowyat.net

The Star

ZDNetAsia

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