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Story: Microsoft's anti-piracy plan condemned
Posted by: Alex T (Tuesday 1 February 2005, 7:03 AM)
This is a very dangerous path for MS to go down, for more than one reason.
If it wasnt possible to copy windows from day one, do you think MS would have the biggest share of home operating systems ???
The idea of making patches only available to genuine windows users is gonna have a larger affect on microsoft than it may think.
Lots of unpatched machines sitting on the net, just waiting for someone to make some kind of exploit that targets MS with a DOS attack, that just wont stop. Until they are forced to give away a free patch to stop it, which defeats the purpose of his genuine advantage program.
Then you are going to have lots of people swop operating systems, because they cant have windows for free.
Bills idea may have put a smile on linux programmers faces tho :)
Best way to stop piracy of any piece of software is to sell it at a REALISTIC price, thats affordable to EVERYONE.
The 199ukp price tag that was on windows xp pro is just ridiculous and GREEDY.
Windows OS is just a interface to use other programs, maybe microsoft shouldnt forget that :)
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Story: Microsoft's anti-piracy plan condemned
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This move will have one major effect on MS. Custom... Anonymous -
So how is it a bad business practice to provi... Anonymous -
I think that this is a bad move altogether. Most o... Marcus Haywood
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This is a very dangerous path for MS to go do... Alex T -
Let's say your car was stolen, would you be oblige... Anonymous
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Most Microsoft flaws is mostly two programs, Their... Daryn Smith
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Its time that Microsoft slashed their prices for "... Anonymous
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MS's price policy is just plain wrong, i think the... Bogdan
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The fact that Microsoft products are way
over... Sarah Singh
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Well if they own a business then they can purchase... Mike
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It's one thing to ask the customer to verify thei... jenny
