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Windows 7 Anti-Piracy Plans
Slatterz writes "Microsoft has announced that the forthcoming Windows 7 operating system will contain a number of piracy 'tweaks' it says are designed to protect the interests of customers. Under the new regime users will be expected to validate their software in a much more precise way than before. Other Microsoft operating systems and anti-piracy measures, including Windows Genuine Advantage, allowed users to delay 'activation,' but Windows 7 will make it harder to ignore repeated messages. According to Joe Williams, general manager for Worldwide Genuine Windows at Microsoft, counterfeit software 'delivers a poor experience and impacts customer satisfaction with our products, particularly if users do not know that their software is non-genuine.' Williams gave the example of one piracy exploit that caused more than a million reported system crashes on machines running non-genuine Windows Vista before Microsoft was able to resolve it."
Make an OS so shitty no one wants it, even for free!
Badumdum...
I am hear all week, try the veal.
I had the Advantage that all my crashes were Genuine.
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pirated versions of windows do deliver a poor experience, but not because they are pirated
To ass rape people in poorer countries that couldn't afford to be ass raped at the higher premium cost?
Everyone else is moving away from DRM - think of iTunes - and throughout the history of commercial software, most successful companies were the ones that stayed away from parallel port dongles, non-standard floppy formats or entering "word 6 on line 5 on page 15 of game manual". This included Microsoft until a few years back.
It seems like Microsoft, starting with Vista and its "check for valid licensed hardware 30 times a second" drivers, made the business decision to jump into bed with the media conglomerates. It doesn't matter if it appears that decision was blazingly wrong-headed; they can't afford to admit it. They're already widely viewed as being behind in the game, even with the non-tech-heads now.
So at this point I would be really surprised to see Microsoft change directions - DRM's tendrils are going to run through every bit of Windows code for the forseeable future.
#DeleteChrome
That's FUD right there. In amongst all that will be a dropdown, and you'll call MS. After a bit, you'll get through to a CSR, who, provided you can answer a couple of questions, will either get you a working activation, or give you a new working key.
NT means 'no text'! move along, nothing to see here
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
This story reeks of bullshit and you are clearly a Linux zealot, so that's even less reason to believe you. Still, the problem is that if you purchase counterfeit software, and you did, it's the same as buying something with counterfeit money. The purchase was not valid. Your loss.
If you have a pizza delivered to your house and you pay for it with a $20 bill that the driver later verifies as being a fake, it doesn't matter who gave it to you. It doesn't matter if you didn't know it was a fake. You still owe the driver a real $20 bill because you didn't pay with real money. The burden is on you to produce legal tender and pay for the product. Not the police, not the pizza company, but you.
Not that it matters now. You threatened them with Linux and wiped the OS from 3 machines with licenses that were already paid for. You sure showed them!
"When you see a unixer brainwashed beyond saving, kick him out of the door." - Xah Lee
It's nice to see someone working hard for that paycheck!
If you're actually not being paid to shill, I'd call an employment agency and see what's available, you're good at maintaining FUD.