Get More from Your Software The Genuine Windows Vista Experience

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Get More from Your SoftwareThe Genuine Windows
Vista Experience
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Benefits of Genuine Windows

• Capabilities You Expect
• Improved user interface and innovative visuals
  with Windows Aero
• Improved PC performance with Windows ReadyBoost

• Confidence and Peace of Mind
• Access to Microsoft support
• Assurance that your original version comes with
  built-in malware and spyware protection

• Ongoing Improvements
• On-going access to all updates on Microsoft.com
• Hundreds of new downloads and latest versions,
  such as Windows Media Player and Internet
  Explorer 7

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Genuine Windows Vista Experience
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Only genuine Windows Vista provides customers
performance and peace of mind
More protection
New features
Software updates
Only genuine versions receive the full
functionality of Windows Defender
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New features and benefits available only on
genuine Windows Vista
Windows ReadyBoost
More protection
Windows Aero

• Innovative visuals and navigation

Not available on Windows Vista Starter version
or Windows Vista Home Basic version
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New features and benefits available only on
genuine Windows Vista
Windows ReadyBoost
More protection
Windows Aero

• Speeds up PC performance with readily available
  USB devices.

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New features and benefits available only on
genuine Windows Vista
Windows ReadyBoost
More protection
Windows Aero

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• 25 of Web sites offering counterfeit product
  keys, pirated software, key generators or crack
  tools attempted to install either malicious or
  unwanted software.

Third party research performed by International
Data Corporation (IDC)
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Piracy It Hurts Everyone
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Piracy It is a problem for All of Us
Its easy to be fooled!

• Reliability and stability of business customers
  computer systems at risk
• Malicious and unwanted software rampant in
  pirated versions

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Piracy How to protect yourself
5 questions to ask

• Are you buying from a reputable reseller?
• Is a Certificate of Authenticity (COA) included?
• Is a hologram CD, DVD, or recovery media
  included?
• Are the product packaging and documentation high
  quality?
• Is an End-user License Agreement (EULA) included?

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Activation and Validation Process
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Genuine Windows Vista activation
Initial product activation requires a valid
product key.

• If initial activation fails, there is a 30-day
  grace period.
• If initial activation does not occur, Windows
  Vista will go into a reduced functionality.

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Genuine Windows Vista validation
From time to time, users may be required to
validate the software is genuine using an online
process.

• Access to non-security downloads and updates are
  reserved for genuine versions.
• If validation fails, Windows Vista will go into a
  non-genuine state with a 30-day grace period.
• At the end of the 30-day grace period, failure to
  successfully validate will result in a reduced
  functionality.

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Non-genuine User Experience
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Non-genuine user experience
If validation fails, the system will go into a
non-genuine state.

• Users have 30 days to activate with a valid
  product key.
• Constant desktop reminder of a count-down of the
  30-day period and non-genuine status.
• Permanent notification This copy of Windows is
  not genuine.

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Non-genuine user experience
If validation fails, the system will go into a
non-genuine state.

• Many features are disabled, such as Windows Aero
  and Windows ReadyBoost.

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Non-genuine user experience
If validation fails, the system will go into a
non-genuine state.
Access to downloads on the Microsoft Download
Center marked with a star require genuine
validation and are denied when using non-genuine
software.
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Non-genuine user experience
If validation fails, the system will go into a
non-genuine state.

• At end of 30-day period, if the user fails to
  activate with a valid product key, the system
  will go into a reduced functionality.

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Non-genuine user experience

• Failure to activate within the 30-day grace
  period, will result in Windows Vista going into a
  reduced functionality.

• No desktop
• No start menu or task bar
• Windows Vista functionality limited to the
  default web browser for 1 hour periods

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• Make sure you experience the performance and
  peace of mind you expect and deserve from genuine
  Windows Vista

Be sure to ask for and receive genuine Microsoft
software!
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Appendix
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Microsoft Respects Your Privacy
Use of genuine software will not compromise your
privacy or become a method for marketing pitches,
spyware, etc. Microsofts WGA does not use any
information collected for purposes to identify or
contact you

• For more details, visit
• http//privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx

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Windows Vista Genuine by Design
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Its a fact Counterfeit software is risky
Research by IDC (sponsored by Microsoft) shows
that acquiring and using counterfeit software can
pose real risks. The research examined websites
that offer counterfeit software as well as hacks,
cracks and keygen tools available on websites
and P2P networks that enable the illegal use of
software.

• The research found there is a significant amount
  of malicious or unwanted code present on websites
  that offer counterfeit and in key generators and
  crack tools.
• Specifically malicious or unwanted software was
  found in
• 25 of the Web sites (25 of 98 sites) offering
  counterfeit product keys, pirated software, key
  generators or crack tools
• 11 of key generators and crack tools (13 out of
  116) from websites
• 59 of key generators and crack tools (55 of 94)
  downloaded from P2P networks

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Microsoft Genuine Software Initiative (GSI)

• The Microsoft Genuine Software Initiative
  focuses the many activities and investments
  directed at combating software counterfeiting and
  other forms of software piracy into a single
  initiative. The initiative will drive increasing
  investments across three strategic areas
  Education, Engineering, and Enforcement.