Windows users have all experienced the Microsoft Activation process, which purports to determine if the running copy of the operating system is “genuine.” And by genuine, we mean to say, whether it has a properly paid-for license.
On February 12, 2010, I used the blog post,” Windows 7 Activation Update Aims at High-Volume Pirates,” by Ed Bott as the basis for this poll question:
Results
Not surprisingly, the 1,444 TechRepublic member respondents were generally not impressed by the Microsoft Activation process and were very skeptical that the program actually does much of anything with regard to preventing piracy.
