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Post: Genunie what?

Anonymous Coward

Genunie what? 

In 1,076 developers, 15 years, one open-source Wine

Linux

So Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage tool directly checks for Wine (and bails out with a generic error message, I hope they have more proof), would this be any different if you were running mono or moonlight which are microsoft backed projects?

Anyway what products would you want that are Genunie Advantage protected if you aren't on a windows box?

Windows Defender

Microsoft Private Folder

Windows Media Player 11, hmm bloat ware

I'll stick with the originals

Playstation yes Xbox no

Flash yes Silverlight no

Google yes live search no

Internet yes MSN network no

Pdf yes Xps no

It's not all bad though, I like .Net.