Every release of MS OS has bluffed it's user and it becomes less problematic only after applying a continuous series of Service Packs. End user should not worry about Longhorn. Let them first release it and then wait for another year for it to become usable. -Santosh
I doubt we shall ever see another Windows buying frenzy as per Windows 95.
In the Windows 95 era software was freeLY COPIABLE if not LEGALLY free. In the time of Longhorn, end users cannot get real value out of the over-priced Windows XP by simply using it on several PCs, as it is copy-locked via Activation.
With Activation precluding any kind of cost-effective OS use, and with Activation also ending the era of freeLY COPIABLE software (which is what made PCs affordable), we must wonder whether there's a viable Windows market out there.
Clearly this is why a slump exists now, and is only going to worsen as more key apps are copylocked.
Has anyone noticed the number of companies that have "Acitvation"-locked their products only to be swallowed up months later by other software firms that are still making some money?
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-Santosh
In the Windows 95 era software was freeLY COPIABLE if not LEGALLY free. In the time of Longhorn, end users cannot get real value out of the over-priced Windows XP by simply using it on several PCs, as it is copy-locked via Activation.
With Activation precluding any kind of cost-effective OS use, and with Activation also ending the era of freeLY COPIABLE software (which is what made PCs affordable), we must wonder whether there's a viable Windows market out there.
Clearly this is why a slump exists now, and is only going to worsen as more key apps are copylocked.
Has anyone noticed the number of companies that have "Acitvation"-locked their products only to be swallowed up months later by other software firms that are still making some money?