On the internet is a tool appeared that trialversies from the Windows 8 application store can be transformed into fully functional versions. Also, with that tool possible to get Windows 8 to install applications outside the Windows Store.
The tool is circulating from this month on Chinese web forums and download sites. The interface of the tool is in English. The software makes it possible to run Windows 8 applications that normally cost money, for free. Therefore, it is necessary that an application has a trial mode. The Windows Store offers developers the ability to present users with a trial offer, which, for example, after a number of days not to use, or which only have limited functionality.
Since then, however, the full version of the program is downloaded, the cracktool the full version to unlock. As far as is known this is the first time that the security of the Windows Store is bypassed. To download a trial version to crack, it is necessary to first download it from the Windows Store. Then, in a list of programs that software can be selected, and then the full version with a single press of the button can be made accessible. Tweakers has this on a fully updated Windows 8 Pro installation can authenticate using a variety of applications, including two Angry Birds games and Microsoft arcade racing game Reckless Racing. The tool does not work under Windows RT, the ARM version of Windows 8: it is not possible for Win32 applications to run.
In addition to the cracking of the trials makes the tool, which it is not clear how that works exactly, it is possible to have Windows 8 to install applications outside the Windows Store. Normally can apps with the new Windows 8 interface can only be installed via the Windows Store, although companies have separate licenses to use applications, to sideload. Microsoft leaves opposite Tweakers know the issue in research, but have no comment to give.
