#84 Sponsored by GoDaddy: Learning from mistakes, This is urgent, and Windows XP SP3

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In today’s episode you will learn from mistakes for Finances. In Business, you will learn about a sense of urgency. And for Technology, you will learn about the Microsoft Windows XP update to SP3.

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In today’s episode I will show you how to Save with a budget in Finances. In Business you will learn whether you should re-brand your company. In Technology you will find out who is the most secure OS.

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http://finance.yahoo.com/how-to-guide/banking-budgeting/12832
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070624-vista-the-most-secure-os-according-to-researcher.html

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Windows Vista Activation Override Article

Here is the article that I mentioned in episode 23 a couple days back.

Microsoft always says it opposes “software pirates” who sell thousands of unauthorized copies of Windows.

But the Redmond company has made things a lot easier for pirates by adding a line to the Registry that can be changed from 0 to 1 to postpone the need to “activate” Vista indefinitely.

Activation doesn’t stop true software piracy

As most Windows users know, Microsoft has required “product activation” since the release of Windows XP in 2001. XP must be activated by communicating with servers in Redmond within 30 days of installation. By contrast, Microsoft Office XP, 2003, and 2007 require activatation before the package is used 5 to 50 times, depending on the version, according to a company FAQ. If a PC has no Internet connection, a user may activate a product by dialing a telephone number in various countries.

The activation process will complete successfully only if the software has not been previously activated, such as on a different machine. If activation isn’t completed within the trial period, Microsoft products temporarily shut down some of their features. MS Office loses the ability to edit and save files. After Vista’s activation deadline runs out, the user can do little other than use Internet Explorer to activate the operating system or buy a new license.

Microsoft describes its product activation scheme as a way to foil software pirates. However, as I previously described in an InfoWorld Magazine article on Oct. 22, 2001, activation does nothing to stop mass piracy. The Redmond company actually included in Windows XP a small file, Wpa.dbl, that makes it easy for pirates to create thousands of machines that validate perfectly.

Far from stopping software piracy, product activation has primarily been designed to prevent home users from installing one copy of Windows on a home machine and a personal-use copy on a laptop. As I explained in an article on Mar. 8, buying a copyrighted work and making another copy strictly for personal use is specifically permitted to consumers by the U.S. Copyright Act and the copyright laws of many other countries.

For example, courts have repeatedly ruled that consumers can make copies of copyrighted songs or television programs for personal use (not for distribution or resale). This principle is legally known as “fair use.” The home edition of Microsoft Office 2007 reflects this principle, allowing consumers to activate three copies of a single purchased product. Microsoft Windows XP and Vista, however, allow only one activation.

Surprisingly, Microsoft has embedded into its new Vista operating system a feature that makes things easier than ever for true, mass software pirates. These tricksters will be able to produce thousands of Windows PCs machines that won’t demand activation indefinitely — at least for a year or more.

Read the rest of Brian Livingston’s article (and also find out how to crack Vista) by going to: http://www.windowssecrets.com/comp/070315/#story1

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#18 Sponsored by GoDaddy.com: Expenses part 2, Hitting the bulls-eye, and More on Windows Vista

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In this episode I continue on Expenses and what role you are playing. In business I talk about how to hit the bulls-eye in sales, and as for Technology I talk more about Windows Vista.

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