Neowin News Feed for: Unlicensed

MS: Clean installs from "upgrade media" could be pirating

Owen Williams — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:06:38 +0000

Late last week, Microsoft published a post on the Microsoft SMB community blog announcing that using any "hack" to install Windows 7 from upgrade media is not necessarily "legal" - and that users do not... Read more...

Microsoft Messenger upgrade boots unlicensed clients out

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 12:59:02 +0000

A SIDE EFFECT of Microsoft's determined push to get people to upgrade its new version of Messenger is that from October 15th "unlicensed clients" will get the heave-ho. We say it's a side effect. But... Read more...

UPDATE: AMD's Opteron won't reject unlicensed content

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 20 Sep 2002 16:23:37 +0000

AMD's Opteron won't reject unlicensed content afterall... According to an AMD UK representative, AMD's Opteron products will run any kind of content in the future -- contrary to the report in The Age,... Read more...

AMD's Opteron to reject unlicensed content

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 20 Sep 2002 13:48:32 +0000

AMD's FORTHCOMING Opteron processor will support Microsoft's trusty "security" initiative, Palladium. Both AMD and Microsoft are members of the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA), a body set up essentially to ensure the management... Read more...

7.44 billion unlicensed audio files to be swapped in 2005 says report

Wed, 14 Aug 2002 15:00:45 +0000

According to a report by the Yankee Group, the number of unlicensed audio files to be swapped by services like Kazaa and Morpheus will top 7.44 billion in 2005, with a small decline to 6.33... Read more...