Stolen Office and Windows keys land Florida woman with 22 months in prison

Florida's Heidi Richards has been sentenced to 22 months in prison and fined $50,000 for trafficking stolen Microsoft Windows ...

Bootleg Windows, Office scheme crashes, triggers 22-month lockup for Florida woman

Heidi Richards paid more than $5M for certificate of authenticity labels in five years A Florida woman will spend nearly two ...

Florida Woman Gets Prison Time for Microsoft Product Key Resale Scheme

Heidi Richards purchased Microsoft certificate of authenticity (COA) labels at a discount and resold them in bulk, in ...

Those cheap Windows and Office keys might come from a federal crime

The US Department of Justice says 52-year-old Heidi Richards of Brandon, Florida, who ran Trinity Software Distribution, has ...
Computerworld

Sorting Out the Software Distribution Tools

Software distribution features can be found in enterprise management frameworks, such as IBM’s Tivoli Configuration Manager and Computer Associates International Inc.’s Unicenter, as well as in ...

Florida woman given major jail sentence for illegally selling Microsoft product keys

Florida woman paid Texas company around $20 for Windows 10 licenses before selling the product keys illegally.
Network World

Hurdles remain for electronic software distribution

It wasn’t long ago that the phrase “software distribution” meant lacing up your shoelaces, schlepping a disk to each end user’s machine, and doing the installation on the spot. Despite all of the ...

Lenovo to pre-install Pokki’s Start menu software on new Windows 8 PCs

SweetLabs’ Pokki software, which has been downloaded by millions of Windows 8 users frustrated with the lack of a start button/menu, will now be pre-installed on new Lenovo Windows 8 PCs. This new ...