Piracy Detection update – Windows 7 users

The Windows Activation Technologies Update for Windows 7, the Windows Genuine patch is designed to detect more than 70 known and potentially dangerous activation hacks, according to a February 11 post about the update on the Windows Team blog.  They are planning to push the update first to Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate and Enterprise users via Windows Update later this month, and also plans to make the update available for download via the http://www.microsoft.com/genuine site starting February 16 and on the Microsoft Download Center as of February 17.