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Microsoft: Can we check your software license?
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Microsoft updates digital media package
October 14, 2003
As part of its growing effort to thwart piracy, Microsoft is offering free photo slideshow software to customers who verify that they have a genuine copy of Windows.
Microsoft on Wednesday released Photo Story 3, the latest version of its software for creating photo slideshows set to music or narration. The previous incarnation was sold as part of a $20 digital media bundle known as Microsoft Plus Digital Media Edition. View all 2 replies
- A Cheaper Windows
- How about this as a tool for Microsoft to combat piracy: lower
the cost of your OS!
$100 PCs and free slideshow software seem like they are
barking up the wrong tree. What will they think of next? - Reply to this comment
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- They already have.
- Microsoft is offering lower-priced versions of Windows in other countries as part of a plan to discourage piracy.
Honestly, though, sale price is not the best answer. If consumers only cared about acquisition costs, they'd all be using Linux. And this is not the case. - View reply
- Free/Libre and Open Source Software best solution to piracy..
- I believe Microsoft is only part-way there. When I first thought about software as a business more than a decade ago I rejected "software manufacturing" because of the inherent incentives for copyright infringement it created. I believe the best solution to the so-called "software piracy" problem is FLOSS. You get paid for the work you do, and your customers do not have any incentive to infringe your copyright.
Make it legal: don't litigate, use creative licensing http://www.flora.ca/makelegal200403.shtml - Reply to this comment
- Microsoft battles piracy with free software
- There is no "Photo Story 3" to be found on the "main Windows download page". The latest they show is "Photo Story 2".
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- Microsoft battles piracy
- Microsoft battles piracy with free software?
I have taken the time to read all 20 posts so far on the subject matter concerning Microsoft and photo story 2 or 3 in exchange for allowing them access to your computer to do as they will.
Sounds like Microsoft should team up with the music industry in trying to control how users end up using their product.
?The Business Software Alliance, a trade group that counts Microsoft as a key member, estimated earlier this year that software piracy robs the industry of $29 billion in sales a year.?
Hmmmmmmm, wonder where they pulled that figure from. On that note could Business Software Alliance come up with a figure of what Microsoft cost its end users in losses of revenue and data due to bugs and hackers?
Well Corporate America, keep sending our jobs and your products to be produced in foreign countries and in turn they can mass produce your product at a cheaper rate and in the process mass produce pirated copies to boot. Did someone say new desktops being sold already have a pirated copy of the OS on it??
As to the earlier post that his software has no bugs, does he work for Microsoft???? - Reply to this comment
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- Hmm
- "As to the earlier post that his software has no bugs, does he work for Microsoft????"
Obviously not if its true which is quite possible contrary to popular belief.
Programmers will tell you its impossible to write software without bugs because that gives them an excuse to be lazy and relieves them of responsibility for the malfunction of their hastily/cheaply written software and the damage it causes.
- Where are the links news.com?
- Where are the links news.com for the great $20 software from MS?
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