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Why is Microsoft Patching XP?
akkarin noted a story about a new Service patch for XP. Dubbed SP2c, the new service patch contains no bug fixes or features. Instead, this exciting patch exists only to add new valid active product registration keys. Oops.
Surely everyone is buying Vista now so they won't need any more keys, right?
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. - Oscar Wilde
This means this next few weeks is lots of free money as all the XP copies start breaking. I get to charge $95.00 an hour to go and investigate a persons computer, see an illigitimate copy, sell them a copy of XP (OEM of course with a piece of hardware to make it legit) at a fair price. I install the new legitimage COA sticker, change the Key by using keychanger, reboot and all is happy. Easy $95.00 profit for 1/2 hour work (we have a minimum 1 hour charge)
Thanks microsoft for making us little guys rich. Last time they did this I was undercutting the "geek squad" guys by $250.00 a pc in total cost and did not lose all the customers data like the Geek squad guys do by performing a reinstall. It seems that most of those guys do not understand any of the tools or proper techniques to deal with such issues.
I'm getting a new 42" plasma Tv this week! WOOOOOO! all thanks to microsoft. THANKS!
And what did the 5 year wait for Vista get Windows users? Oh look, a pretty new interface and more DRM! Seriously for most people there was no real benefit to getting Vista especially when they may have to upgrade their hardware (or get new hardware) just to get some of the features like Aero. Also software compatibility and stability issues are a major deterrence until MS can fix some of them. So a $79 upgrade to Vista may actually cost you more than $129 in terms of time, hardware, and pain.
For the most part, a new OS X is optional, but there are a lot of new features that make the upgrade worthwhile. The old OS X version will still work. I have a Mac on 10.3 (Panther) that is still getting patches. Because Apple doesn't have software activation, I could upgrade it to Tiger without any charge. It would be somewhat dishonest, and I would have my conscience clear. When Leopard comes out, I'll upgrade my laptop and upgrade my desktop to Tiger.
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Yeah, I didnt find it to be quite like that.
Windows 3 - Wow... its an actual operating system unlike windows 1 and 2... sweet.
Windows 3.11 for workgroups - Its... exactly the same. But the name was nice so I used it.
Windows 95 - Did I say 3.1 was an actual Os... damn. Now this is an OS.
Windows 98 - Nice but... I dont see a lot in it new.
Windows 98se - Not a whole lot on 98, but not 98 wasnt so bad after closer examination.
Windows ME - WTF?!?!? why wont my pc boot.
Windows 2000 - Sweet, now I can run all those fancy 2000 only apps.
Windows XP - meh... 2000 runs faster... a lot faster...
Windows XP SP1 - Well this aint so bad, and i dont have a choice compatibility wise...
Windows Vista - WTF?!?!?, why wont my pc boot.