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Remember the Office “Genuine Advantage” notifications from a few weeks back? Guess what, they had problems..just like the Windows Genuine Advantage rollout.
Turns out the update went to “managed clients inside and outside of these intended countries” (emphasis, mine) according to a post on Microsoft’s WSUS Product Team blog. According to Joe Wilcox at Microsoft Watch, [...]

a pirate group called Pantheon has released a crack for Windows Vista which allows a pirated, non-activated installation of Vista Home Basic Vista Home Premium and Vista Home Ultimate to be properly activated and made fully-operational. It attacks the OEM method of activation and includes files to completely patch the OS.
The process actually uses Microsoft’s [...]