Windows Vista 'Frankenbuilds' spotted in the wild

Last week saw a reported leak of an RTM build of Windows Vista. The reports I read indicated that there was an RTM build to download from a P2P network or via Bittorrent and instructions for 'hacking' by cobbing together a couple of files that were released with Windows Vista RC1 and using an RC1 or RC2 product key. Thus in our hallway this version has is being referred to as a Franken(stein)-build of Windows Vista.

As most of the coverage I have seen notes, since the product keys being used with these builds were meant to be used with RC1 builds and were not intended for long term use ultimately these installations will be of limited value.  If anything this event shows the demand for the improvements that Windows Vista offers.

Question: does this mean Windows Vista is cool?

Comments

• Anonymous
  November 20, 2006
  > Question: does this mean Windows Vista is cool? No. It means you can't stop people using Vista for free, no matter how hard you try.

• Anonymous
  December 15, 2006
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• Anonymous
  December 15, 2006
  oh and one last thing dont you think that if they dropped the price they would make more money? if they dropped the price i believe the number of genuin copies will increase by atleast 50 percent which means even though they dropped the price of the os they will make more money since the people that get the pirated copy is buying the geniun os..