Cracking Windows has never been that easy

I read the story at connected internet who got it from cybernetnews. who got it from tgdaily. Someone apparently bought a copy of Windows Vista in a store in Thailand for $3.50 and was astonished when he read the sticker that normally contained the product activation key.

The sticker told him to set the time of his bios to 2099, install Vista and set the time of the desktop to the current time. This should have the effect that Vista would not ask the user to activate the system after 14 days of usage, heck it will never ask for activation in the next 93 years. It is not sure if this method works with every version of Vista that will be sold but it surely sounds to easy to be true.

Microsoft got never tired of mentioning that the developers did a lot of concentration on security aspects - makes one wonder if those can be bypassed that easily as well. Is it illegal to do this ? I’m not sure but it does not seem to be, you are not tinkering with the software at all. Time will tell, if you try this one out let me know.