Comments on: Microsoft plans to give some pirates a break

People duped into buying counterfeit versions of Windows could get free licensed copies of the operating system.

[Earl Benser]

Maybe buying legitimate copies was a mistake.

I could have saved some real money by buying some of the many
counterfeit copies on the web.

I probably could have even saved more by not buying XP at all,
Win2K was running fine. The upgrades to XP have served no useful
purpose as far as I can tell.

Right now, that experience says that I'm not going to pay a penny
for any copies of Longhorn, legitimate or counterfeit.

[Willy Wonker]

You never known if you..

...going to buy( ___Longhorn___ ) mmm steak
in 3 years or more.

[dinkelburt]

But it's pretty

Oh c'mon, everyone wants the XP upgrade because it's pretty ^_^

Yeah But

I thought the same Earl. I should have XP off eBay from SE Asia, somewhere. I shouldn't have been a legitimate customer, spent all that money. I still have one machine running 2000 Pro, very nicely. My 98SE machine is happy too.

But notice the phrase "Customers whose copy fails to pass inspection" - that could include
1. Possessors of pirated software
2. Legitimate owner, who's registration failed
3. Anyone else, where the M$ inspection tool failed.

Ya know, I stand up against file sharing - I write software all day - and everyone that uses it pays. But, I do think we're losing any sort of reasonable vendor-customer relationship. People (apparently a LOT of people) are happy to use stolen software. Then we also have the advent of sneak-wrap - when a new term is invented to describe something, it sounds like a significant departure from what we had before.

Can't we all just get along - PEACE BABY :-)

Why The Focus On Just The Windows OSes!!!

To the extent that one requires much more functionalities from middleware and other applications in a number of cases to complete the work at hand; and, the fact that Microsoft in particular did not appear to have had a focus in the past on importance of the "internet" (for collaborative and security enhanced solutions) then one needs to take a general approach to find out if the Windows environments currently meet their needs and will do so adequately in the future with regards to the growing requirements for XML and Web Services interoperabilities. How well will Windows and Windows based products communicate with alternative OSes and Applications that are present in the global marketplace?

One word: Money

Windows is a patched mess designed for the old pre-networking days of microcomputing. But zealots continue to believe in the Gospel of Gates because of the power of money.

Very few outside of the tech community even are aware that there are alternatives, but they are aware that MS stock is worth something, so they go with what they think is value.

[rodnarms]

Can someone check if the clothes I'm wearing is legit?

People are willing to let Microsoft check out their computer? Most get Windows pre-installed from major OEM's so they don't have to worry if its legal or not.

Free Linux distributions don't ask you to do this. For more advanced computer users, its time to dump Windows, be more productive, and save cash.

[br77575]

Oh Goodie!

Microsoft is now offering Windows XP at a special closeout sale price of only $149. You better get'em now folks, because only a limited number of these genuine certified copies will be available before the new version is released. After that, no more will be available forever, so you better hurry, hurry, hurry to your trusted Microsoft site and download your very own personalized copy before it is too late.

[landlines]

It's really easy to stop piracy!!

...just provide world-class, no-nonsense, one-call support. We've been doing this for 26 years, and have NO trouble with piracy!!

It is impossible to hijack excellent support, and customers are more than willing to pay for good value received.

If you cheat on the customer relationship, such as FAILING TO PROVIDE MEANINGFUL SUPPORT, customers will take revenge upon you...one way or another. Apparently MS has yet to learn this simple business principle...and it has indirectly admitted that 36% of its user base now considers the value of its product support to be zero.

[heryto]

tank´s you jejeje:D

[COMPPROUK]

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[COMPPROUK]

yea there is alot of counterfeight going on i would say sometimes its ok to go private but its better to go to a real manufacturer .... Microsoft programmers are trying to resolve this but it is easyier said then done. I work for a company named comppro wich work along side microsoft programming although we do not licence our products under the terms of microsoft but make sure we obide by there licence

as a computer progammer my self id av to say that if we did change the code that we use to build such programs as XP VISTA and so on well you wouldnt have much of a screen to use other than command prompt if that heres just a quick example of what i mean

public sub .... this means the user uses it its public ok

private sub ...... this means you dont see it but you do use it ... its what your system runs of to boot up n so on

microsoft do try to make it secure as possible but at the mo it sum what impossible but still can be done duno how yet but it can sorry guys

so best thin to do for now is if you do go private revise on him or look for a certified seal if it doesnt have 1 send it back

go to a manufacturer e.g microsoft, COMPPRO, allume system's, and so on other wise your at great risk at buying counterfeight and anouther prob with doing this if they can counterfeight then theres a possibility they have messed with the code by overrideing the public sub if this is the case it quiet easy to add some code wich will kill your computer aka virus

just be carefull when buying if you do need any advice on computers feel 3 to ask and as 4 the lad that has xp n doesnt work properly get a back up disk (Software) for any setup you want ,XP,Vista n so on
reset and then press delete at run time browse through till you find the 1st boot and change dat to cd rom /cd/cdrive then reset again by pressing F10 itll then ask you to save just press enter reboot and wen it ses press any key to boot from cd press a key and itll work once your done reset and press delete itll bring up your screen again browse through again till you *** back to the 1st boot change it back to its original if you aint sure it ok to use ither HDD,HDD-0 or floppy press F10 and save and then itll work properly ok