Friday, September 11, 2009

Validation for Windows 7 is coming soon!

I am ALWAYS so glad to install new releases of Microsoft Windows. So I have installed the Windows 7 RTM. Today (11.09.2009) I got a very bad surprise! Windows poped up a warning that my copy is not genuine with a link to validate my copy of Windows 7. So I try to validate at http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/ .... and during the validation process I get the following message:

Validation for Windows 7 is coming soon!
Microsoft constantly strives to update our technologies to help protect our customers from the risks of counterfeit software. Right now, we are working hard to improve the way that validation checks to see whether Windows 7 running on your PC is genuine.
Shortly after Windows 7 is available for purchase beginning October 22, you will be able to validate Windows 7 running on your PC to help you determine that it’s genuine.

The problem is that some win7 features have being meanwhile disabled:-(