dobax - Slashdot User

Black Screens For Unauthorized Copies of Windows 762

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 28, 2008 @06:10PM from the black-is-the-new-black dept.

arcticstoat writes "In a bid to deter people from using pirate versions of Windows XP, Microsoft is now updating its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) tool to introduce a few uncomfortable niggles for users of pirated versions of Windows. These include replacing the desktop wallpaper with a black screen every 60 minutes, although you can still replace it with your wallpaper of choice in the intervening period. As well as this, copies of Windows deemed to not be genuine will also have a translucent watermark above the system tray, which Microsoft calls a 'persistent desktop notification.'"

Comment Arnel's training (Score 1) 1806

by dobax on Wednesday July 30, 2008 @02:01PM (#24405515) Attached to: How Do Geeks Exercise?

I do Arnel's training and it works like a charm: http://www.iwantsixpackabs.com/abs.html. You'll have to pay special attention to the foods suggested in this site and in related sites.

Windows Is Dead – Long Live Midori? 695

Posted by timothy on Wednesday July 30, 2008 @01:21PM from the what-about-midori-linux? dept.

parvenu74 writes "A story from Infoworld is suggesting that the days of Windows are numbered and that Microsoft is preparing a web-based operating system code-named Midori as a successor. Midori is reported to be an offshoot of Microsoft Research's Singularity OS, an all-managed code microkernel OS which leverages a technology called software isolated processes (SIPs) to overcome the traditional inter-thread communications issues of microkernel OSes."

Slashdot Top Deals