Windows Vista Cracked?  Windows VistaThis is everywhere in the
news this morning. It appears that Windows Vista has been
officially cracked! From what I have read up to now, the crack
seems to be working by emulating certain vendor-specific
information at the BIOS level, effectively circumventing product
activation altogether.  Microsoft allows large hardware
manufacturers (e.g. ASUS, HP, Dell) to ship their products
containing a Windows Vista installation that does NOT require
any kind of product activation as this might be considered an
unnecessary inconvenience for the end-user.Instead these so-
called ‘Royalty OEMs’ are granted the right to embed certain
license information into their hardware products, which can be
validated by Windows Vista to make obtaining further activation
information (online or by phone) obsolete. This mechanism is
commonly referred to as ‘SLP 2.0′ (‘system-locked pre-
installation 2.0′) and consists of the following three key
elements:  Read more  Edit 06/03/07: I can now confirm th