Monday, June 7, 2010

KB971033 and MS blocking OEM Product Keys

If KB971033 or a subsequent update actually does manage to sort out the OEM Licenses used to defeat the W7 Activation (Hack or Crack) then another approach may have be taken.

At the moment it looks like that MS are fanning the flames to create smoke for the "smoke and mirrors" on what they have done to deter those that might be thinking of trying to bypass the WAT process.

If would appear that MS have tried this before and this is a quote that I found on the MyDigitalLife blog:

Anyway, even if the leaked 22TKD OEM product key is blacklisted, ultimately a unblockable OEM-SLP product keys for Windows 7 that delivers with computer machine will be leaked when the goods are shipped in October.

This seems to be exactly what has happened. (the October here was October 2009 - it is now June 2010 and MS are getting round to addressing the issue with KB971033)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Has anyone worked out the Relationship between Product Key and License Number?

I seem to see numbers that are not related to the ones that are on the COA sticker on the MS packaging.

Also some of the installs of OEM versions of Windows 7 have an option to change the Product ID, others don't - could this be due to some being Volume License Installs?

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