"By default when you build an application against the .Net Framework it will default to the version you built it on," Roxe said. "If you have 2.0 on your machine and the application is written against 1.1, it will by default try to run on 1.1."
Which means, when you try to run old M$ applications on your freshly upgraded machine, the .NET framework 2 will crash your computer and irritate the hell out of you.
Then, they got hacked. The M$ security check, which checks to make sure your copy of Windows is "Fer Realz, And Stuff" before you update, has already been bypassed. My favorite quote from M$ about this?
Microsoft confirmed that the technique could circumvent the piracy check, but a representative said Monday that the company is not worried.
"This represents very little threat to Microsoft," the representative said. "We expected counterfeiters to try a number of different methods to circumvent the safeguards provided by Windows Genuine Advantage."
Which, of course, begs the question: why the hell try to prevent it if you know they're gonna get around it anyway?
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