Comments on: Microsoft to lock pirates out of Vista PCs

Antipiracy tech to shut people out of their PCs if the OS isn't activated soon after installation.

[akita96th]

Poor ol MS

Well I recently saw Bill Gates and Waren Buffett on TV talking about all the billions they were going to be giving away to poor countries etc..hmm were did all that money come from ..Probly all them high prices they charge for all their crappy software ...Well that only tells me that piracy hasnt hurt them at all in fact MS is one of the richest companies in the world so why are they crying that piracy is hurting there business...seems to me every new pc made uses windows xp hmmm so how many is made and sold everyday with legitimate os systems already installed...and if you wanted to buy one of their os systems well its not cheap...so if you ask me the only thing MS is really upset about is the fact that they are not making trillions of dollars instead of bilions wow boy do I feel sorry for these poor old greed barons we should maby set up a donation box somewhere so we can send them more money so they can afford to make more high priced software so they can hose us down all over again...They cant even make a simple browser that will keep hijackers and addware peddlers out of our pcs and yet they think they can make a os that will be expensive and hack free hah......The problem with most major software companies is the greed factor they want to cater to the rich companies who pay their high prices so the software is not available to ordinary citizens whose only source is to get the hacked software ...Lower prices will do more to deter piracy than anything else that they have tried and they usually spend millions on security when making it affordable will be cheaper and profitible.....VIVA LA HACKERS

[StevieH4]

Monopoly

Seems to me that Microsoft are the real pirates. Nice of Bill to give away his profits so freely.
Every computer manufacturer in every country in the world should seriously look at Microsofts "Blackmail" policy. Piracy or extortion?