On Monday, Office 2007 went Gold. On Wednesday, Windows Vista went RTM. On Saturday both are available via Usenet download for at least 24 hours.

Windows Vista available with an activation crack that uses a License file from the betas so it accepts keys used during the betas. This is fixable by Microsoft as they can disable all given keys during the beta period in one swoop in the coming months. Vista being more attached to its host (Microsoft) then ever, crackers/pirates are going to have a hard time with this one. Hell even Volume Keys require some sort of license server to be present. This is known as Volume Licensing 2.0.

However Office 2007, uses Volume Licensing 1.0, which means “one key to rule them all”. The release that hit the web includes such key. What amazes me is the speed it took to get these products out on the good ol’ net. Frankly I’m waiting for Office 2007 (probably be released as 2008 to create confusion) for Mac to be released. Emulated Office 2004 sucks and Rosetta Stone is not all that wonderful and nice that Apple makes it out to be. Word takes a good 90 seconds to load as opposed to the 50 seconds it takes (still too long) under PowerPC.

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