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Pirating an OS? Choose Microsoft!

SkyBell

SkyBell

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At the Morgan Stanley Technology conference last week in San Francisco, Microsoft business group president Jeff Raikes commented on the benefits of software counterfeiting. "If they're going to pirate somebody, we want it to be us rather than somebody else," he said. "We understand that in the long run the fundamental asset is the installed base of people who are using our products. What you hope to do over time is convert them to licensing the software."
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http://arstechnica.com/journals/mic...-executive-pirating-software-choose-microsoft



Well, I guess I'll help myself then!:rolleyes:
 
They're finally admitting, after all the DRM crap and Windows Genuine Advantage, that there's nothing they can do to stop piracy?
 
This is how they gained their monopoly in the first place. What's surprising is that they're basically admitting it.

Having said that, I have a legal copy of Vista Ultimate. It is the first legal license of Windows I have ever owned. (I only got it 'cause it only cost me $45 though. :D)
 
someguy said:
They're finally admitting, after all the DRM crap and Windows Genuine Advantage, that there's nothing they can do to stop piracy?
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I pirated and then over rided the WGA, and then after 6 months of not using windows partition I deleted it.
 
someguy said:
They're finally admitting, after all the DRM crap and Windows Genuine Advantage, that there's nothing they can do to stop piracy?
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No, what they are admitting is that they are using it as a means to propagate their ilk, and then punish them, and the rest of us later. Is that not the way drug dealers work; hook then then fleece them?
 
Installed base is the reason MS is still around...I'm not surprised they are less worried about piracy than people going elsewhere...
 
Haha, I would say this is an obvious attempt at an early April Fool's joke, with a fake published date, but this IS Microsoft we're dealing with here :p.
 
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