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Microsoft Launches Comical Effort to Fight Piracy
theodp writes "A week before the release of Vista, Microsoft is expanding its fight against software piracy with a new educational effort that includes comics. Making its U.S. debut Monday, the Genuine Fact Files campaign aims to make Microsoft's message more accessible to a broader audience. BTW, Vista's Software Protection Platform (SPP) can put unvalidated copies of the software into a reduced-functionality mode. From the article: 'Microsoft plans to draw attention to it through banner ads on its Web sites and promotional material that it will hand out through partners. By using comics, the company aims to make the message more accessible to a broader audience. They are black and white, in a style similar to newspaper comics.'"
You don't have to consider the people who can't, but also the people who just don't want to. I think that if most people were presented with the option of Windows for $200, plus the cost of MS Office $300?, they'd pick Linux and OO.o (or Koffice, or whatever, not trying to start a war here) in a heart beat. The problem is that people don't really pay that much for their software. They get windows really cheap, or maybe even a negative cost when you consider that Dell has cheaper prices than the small retailer down the road who actually offers a computer with no OS, because Dell sells more. Yes I know that dell has/had the n-Series, but those were actually at least in not more expensive than the comparable windows only model.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
If they can't afford a $200 operating system, they shouldn't be using it. Maybe if piracy wasn't so easy, more people would be forced to move to another operating system like Linux. Instead, people decide that it's easier to steal. Microsoft owns the software. They can charge however much they want, and they have the right to protect their software from piracy. They're doing a very good job at it, and I applaud their efforts.
Are they in black and white or color? Newspaper or graphic novel style? Oh, how I wish someone would tell me because neither the summary nor the quote from the article say!
Also, I'd like to know - what style are they in? And are they in color? Im asking because I couldn't tell from the article, and I don't think it said so in the summary.
Modding me "redundant" will just make this funnier to me.
Since I can't tell them apart, I treat all ACs as the same person.
Strictly for research, every copy of Windows I've obtained from sources non-MS have had zero communication to any server outside my network. I run a Linux server between the test machine and the 'net and log every packet of data, IP, time, port, etc. Thank you for spreading false truths.
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.