Genuine Windows is Ubuntu?

Someone over at the Ubuntu Forum managed to validate Xbuntu as “Genuine Windows”. He was trying to download Windows Defender from Microsoft’s website using IE4Linux, when he was asked to go through Genuine Advantage Test. As IE4Linux doesn’t support ActiveX, he downloaded the validation tool and ran it using Wine. The validation tool generated a code, which had to be pasted into the authentication box to validate. Surprisingly, it verified Xbuntu as “Genuine Windows” and forwarded him to the download page.

This video will explain it all:

So what does this prove? Genuine Windows = Ubuntu? :P

You can download the higher quality video from here (mirror).

This post was published by on June 18, 2007

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  • abhishek

    This video is fake, i have tried myself. It shows invalid. Even i have tried to put same key shown in video, thats also not working….

    FAKE!!

  • http://www.kuanhoong.com/ kuanhoong

    Hey, that is interesting. I love ubuntu.

  • http://www.techlivez.com shashank

    thats really strange…how is it possible….may be some trick

  • http://jeethurao.com/blog Jeethu

    @abhishek: Your tone seems to indicate that you tried it on Windows, not (K|X)?ubuntu :)

  • http://www.webmaster-dome.com/ Sreejith

    I read about it yesterday. It just goes to show how crap Windows validation tool is. Lol.

  • http://blogs.mysites-advisor.com Ken Xu

    Nice ubuntu! Even validated and genuine! hahaha Microsoft have a bad validation tool, huh?

  • http://www.listikal.com listikal

    That’s hilarious. The Windows Validation stuff is so incredibly annoying.

  • http://www.webmaster-dome.com/ Sreejith

    I read about it yesterday. It just goes to show how crap Windows validation tool is. Lol.