Windows XP’s most famous pirated key wasn’t a hack, and a Microsoft engineer explains why

If you used a PC in the early 2000s, this image of a CD with FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8 written with a permanent marker probably needs no explanation: For everyone else, that random-looking string written on the CD is one of the most famous Windows keys ever created, but it was not made intentionally to curb piracy of Windows XP, which began...