Get More from Your Software The Genuine Windows Vista™ Experience

1. Get More from Your SoftwareThe Genuine Windows Vista™ Experience

2. Benefits of Genuine Windows • Capabilities You Expect • Improved user interface and innovative visuals with Windows® Aero™ • Improved PC performance with Windows ReadyBoost™ • Confidence and Peace of Mind • Access to Microsoft support • Assurance that your original version comes with built-in malware and spyware protection • Ongoing Improvements • On-going access to important updates on Microsoft.com • Hundreds of new downloads and latest versions, such as Windows Media® Player and Internet Explorer® 7

3. Genuine Windows Vista Experience

4. Only genuine Windows Vista provides customers performance and peace of mind More protection* New features Software updates *Only genuine versions receive the full functionality of Windows Defender

5. Innovative visuals and navigation New features and benefits available only on genuine Windows Vista Windows ReadyBoost More protection Windows Aero* *Not available on Windows Vista Starter version or Windows Vista Home Basic version

6. Speeds up PC performance with readily available USB devices. New features and benefits available only on genuine Windows Vista Windows ReadyBoost More protection Windows Aero

7. 25% of Web sites offering counterfeit product keys, pirated software, key generators or crack tools attempted to install either malicious or unwanted software*. New features and benefits available only on genuine Windows Vista Windows ReadyBoost More protection Windows Aero *Third party research performed by International Data Corporation (IDC)

8. Piracy: It Hurts Everyone

9. Piracy: It is a problem for All of Us Low-Grade Mid-Grade High-Grade It’s easy to be fooled! • Reliability and stability of business customers computer systems at risk • Malicious and unwanted software rampant in pirated versions

10. Piracy: How to protect yourself 5 questions to ask: Are you buying from a reputable reseller? Is a Certificate of Authenticity (COA) included? Is a hologram CD, DVD, or recovery media included? Are the product packaging and documentation high quality? Is an End-user License Agreement (EULA) included?

11. Activation and Validation Process

12. Genuine Windows Vista activation Initial product activation requires a valid product key. • If initial activation fails, there is a 30-day grace period. • If initial activation does not occur, Windows Vista will go into a reduced functionality mode.

13. Genuine Windows Vista validation From time to time, users may be required to validate the software is genuine using an online process. • Access to certain content, downloads, and updates are reserved for genuine versions. • If validation fails, Windows Vista will go into a “non-genuine” state with a 30-day grace period. • At the end of the 30-day grace period, failure to successfully validate will result in a reduced functionality mode.

14. Non-genuine User Experience

15. Non-genuine user experience If activation or validation fails, the system will go into a “non-genuine” state. • Users have 30 days to activate with a valid product key. • Constant desktop reminder of a count-down of the 30-day period and non-genuine status. • Permanent notification “This copy of Windows is not genuine.”

16. Non-genuine user experience If activation or validation fails, the system will go into a “non-genuine” state. • Many features are disabled, such as Windows Aero and Windows ReadyBoost.

17. Non-genuine user experience If activation or validation fails, the system will go into a “non-genuine” state. Access to downloads on the Microsoft Download Center marked with a star require genuine validation and are denied when using non-genuine software.

18. Non-genuine user experience If activation or validation fails, the system will go into a “non-genuine” state. • At end of 30-day period, if the user fails to activate with a valid product key, the system will go into a reduced functionality mode.

19. Failure to activate within the 30-day grace period, will result in Windows Vista going into a reduced functionality mode. Non-genuine user experience • No desktop • No start menu or task bar • Windows Vista functionality limited to the default web browser for 1 hour periods

20. Make sure you experience the performance and peace of mind you expect and deserve from genuine Windows Vista Be sure to ask for and receive genuine Microsoft software!

21. Appendix

22. Microsoft Respects Your Privacy Use of genuine software will not compromise your privacy or become a method for marketing pitches, spyware, etc. Microsoft’s WGA does not use any information collected for purposes to identify or contact you • For more details, visit: http://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx

23. Windows VistaGenuine by Design

24. It’s a fact: Counterfeit software is risky Research by IDC (sponsored by Microsoft) shows that acquiring and using counterfeit software can pose real risks. The research examined websites that offer counterfeit software as well as hacks, cracks and ‘keygen’ tools available on websites and P2P networks that enable the illegal use of software. • The research found there is a significant amount of malicious or unwanted code present on websites that offer counterfeit and in key generators and crack tools. • Specifically malicious or unwanted software was found in: • 25% of the Web sites (25 of 98 sites) offering counterfeit product keys, pirated software, key generators or crack tools • 11% of key generators and crack tools (13 out of 116) from websites • 59% of key generators and crack tools (55 of 94) downloaded from P2P networks

25. Microsoft Genuine Software Initiative (GSI) The Microsoft Genuine Software Initiative focuses the many activities and investments directed at combating software counterfeiting and other forms of software piracy into a single initiative. The initiative will drive increasing investments across three strategic areas: Education, Engineering, and Enforcement.