The new Windows Vista 3 ways crack is a combination of the existing workarounds for the operating system that has been released in the wake of the product's commercial availability. The actual crack is a variation of the 2099 Vista activation workaround and it involves installing the operating system after setting the BIOS clock to 2099. However, its author claims that by combining three current Vista workarounds this is an overhauled crack.

The Windows Vista 3 ways crack is designed for 32-bit operating systems alone, and according to reports, it has been confirmed to work with the RTM version of the operating system. The 3 ways crack delivers not only the activation workaround but also flash videos that reveal the actions needed to be taken in order to apply the crack.

Although it claims to be a compendium of cracks, the fact of the matter is that this is nothing more than a variation to the 2099 crack. It fails to bring anything new to the table and it will also not survive long as Microsoft has been developing an update for the WGA mechanism since early January 2007.

But other than confirming the existence of the 2099 workaround and informing that it will take the necessary measures in order to render inoperable the copies of Windows Vista activated via the 2099 crack, Microsoft has not done much of anything else as yet. The real issue is the fact that Microsoft also has to prepare for the way hackers will react to the WGA update designed to kill the 2099 crack. Following the WGA update that killed Frankenbuild copies of Vista, the cracking mechanism was updated in order to counteract Microsoft's measures.