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New Anti-Piracy Tools Will Delay Enterprise Adoption of Vista

Saturday, October 7th, 2006

The new anti-piracy and validation tools that Microsoft plans to ship starting with Windows Vista Windows Vista 001.jpgand Longhorn Server will help ensure that there will be little corporate uptake of these operating systems in 2007, according to analysts. That is because when Windows Vista is released to manufacturing in the next month, it will include the volume-license KMS (key management service), which will also be available for the beta of Windows Server Longhorn.

The same applies to Microsoft’s Volume Activation Management tool, which will help with proxy activation. That tool can be run on a single machine that talks to all the machines in, say, a lab, and harvests the hardware identity data from them. Analysts: New Anti-Piracy Tools Will Delay Enterprise Adoption of Vista

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