Did you know there are two different holograms on old boxes of Windows 95? I didn't. Did you know one of them has a child with no top pointing at Microsoft on a monitor, which a government complained about and got changed? I also did not know that.
Yet now I do, thanks to a blog from Microsoft's Raymond Chen. The anti-piracy holograms were a way of assuring the buyer of a copy of Windows 95 that the product was legitimate. They're incredibly hard to fake, or just cost too much to produce, so even if one could successfully mimic the look of a Windows 95 box, they couldn't mimic the hologram.
