The CIA probably has people actively working right now on how to cause huge Dos attacks on say computers in Iran or whatever country the US feels is threatening IT'S interests either rightly or wrongly. Disruption of electronic communications these days can be more damaging to a country in the long term than even a physical attack
I suspect it was actually leaked by the group within Ms itself who want to either push on with W7's delayed SP2 or those who want to keep the desktop and have nothing to do with Metro.
As what happens with EVERY unauthorized leak... Leaks are fun.I doubt it. Jimbo. I think it is just over excitement combined with curiosity.
Love me some leaks!
But shoot, this leak will DEMAND a key at setup.....me wonders if upgrade install will work...
Hopefully we can get the Pro version
I wouldn't want to waste a download of Enterprise as I certainly am not planning on sticking with it xD
Oh you can rearm it more than 3 times?! FANTASTIC! Then I can use it over the Release Preview! Them sounds are cool!Love me some leaks!
But shoot, this leak will DEMAND a key at setup.....me wonders if upgrade install will work...
Hi there - It doesn't -- Enterprise version doesn't seem to want to -- also for Enterprise the "Rearm" trick works 1000 times -- Win 7 only works 3.
I know a lot of people aren't the most bright - but if it had needed a product key at setup somebody would have mentioned it before the torrent downloading numbers became (and still are) huge. !!!
If you want to risk it just install. It's an Enterprise version so eventually you'll need a proper license server or individual unique key from Ms to activate permanently. In any case I'd install this on a Virtual Machine first.
Note also that the PROD.INI file you used to get with a trial key (enter the value in prod.ini into the serial number) doesn't exist any more -- Finally as far as I can glean from "unspecified sources" Ms have decided that keys will be uniquely assigned on INDIVIDUAL downloads so this should stop a lot of piracy (won't stop the "pros" of course but it will stop 99.9% of "Casual piracy" if you understand what I mean.
They should have taken this approach YEARS ago -- seems obvious to me -- tie in a unique serial number to each purchase --this serial number to be uniquely stored APART from the key rather than do the whole kybosh with "Product ID's " or whatever.
They could easily include a unique scrambled GUID into each copy of Windows and link this to some identifying data so they could easily find out the source of the piracy.
Cheers
jimbo
Hopefully we can get the Pro version
I wouldn't want to waste a download of Enterprise as I certainly am not planning on sticking with it xD
I suspect the Pro version won't install without a product key. I'm not sure, but I believe that ability is an Enterprise thing. I could be wrong, though.
I installed the Enterprise version just to see the final Desktop UI in action, and a couple of other things - I want to make sure they didn't screw up my tweaks between Release Preview and the final RTM. So far, so good, and the Desktop UI isn't that bad - no Aero on the taskbar and no Glass transparency on title bars - I can live with that.
Onward...