Microsoft’s New Anti-piracy Tools Come at a Steep Price

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Peter Galli
Peter Galli
Published: Oct 5, 2006
Updated: Feb 2, 2021
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It seems Microsoft’s decision to introduce a new platform and technologies designed to reduce piracy and improve authentication in Windows Vista may come at a steep price: lack of enterprise adoption of Vista in 2007.

Microsoft, on Oct. 4, announced a new software protection platform and accompanying technologies that it plans to incorporate in a variety of products, starting with Windows Vista and Windows Server Longhorn, in hopes of combating piracy.

The problem is that these tools will initially only be available for Vista and the Longhorn Server beta.

That means that all those enterprises that are not allowed to run client or beta server software in production environments will not be able to use these new tools until they are made available for existing production servers like Windows Server 2003.

That is only expected some six months after Vista is released to manufacturing.

Peter Galli

Peter Galli has been a technology reporter for 12 years at leading publications in South Africa, the UK and the US. He has comprehensively covered Microsoft and its Windows and .Net platforms, as well as the many legal challenges it has faced. He has also focused on Sun Microsystems and its Solaris operating environment, Java and Unix offerings. He covers developments in the open source community, particularly around the Linux kernel and the effects it will have on the enterprise. He has written extensively about new products for the Linux and Unix platforms, the development of open standards and critically looked at the potential Linux has to offer an alternative operating system and platform to Windows, .Net and Unix-based solutions like Solaris.

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