When I was in college, we fit 21 people into a station wagon and 19 people into a pickup truck. This was years before the practice was made illegal by state law. I doubt they can get that many dummies into today's cars.
This doesn't remove the fact that you defrauded Microsoft by not informing them that you were using OEM disk on a new machine when asking for reactivation which is explicitly forbidden by the license.
I bought my OEM discs with new hardware (i.e., motherboard, CPU and memory). It's the only way you can buy the OEM discs. The few times that I had to replaced a bad motherboard, and had to call Microsoft to re-activate the license, I informed that I was using a OEM disc. Microsoft didn't have a problem.
The ease of committing these criminal acts does not make it legal or acceptable.
As is the ease of falsely accusing someone of a crime to cover up the losing end of an argument.
What does the guy by Microsoft Office got to do with Microsoft Windows? I don't recall Steve Jobs suing this guy for stealing from Apple. Please fix your post.
Yes, I did. My understanding is that you could always transfer Windows to new hardware for the same system. I ran Windows 98 to Window 8 on the same computer since 1997 and probably switched out the motherboard/CPU/memory a dozen times since then.
No. Jobs got his ideas from Xerox. Gates got his ideas from Apple. Nothing has changed since then. After the raging succes of Mac OS X, Microsoft is bringing out Windows OS X.
Everyone and their script kiddy grandmothers have claimed Windows as their own. If you want to earn your hacker creds these days, you need to go after *nix.
Then you specifically violated Microsoft's OEM license under which the OS was licensed to you.
Microsoft had no problem activating Windows XP/Vista/7/8 for each hardware upgrade, especially when I had to call the support number because the online activation didn't work.
I originally compared Windows 7 to Windows XP. When my Windows system had XP installed, I bought an OEM disc for the first installation in 2001. Every two years after that, I replaced the underlying hardware. Each time I re-activated the original license after wiping the hard drive and installing from the OEM disc. Microsoft got paid exactly ONCE during those seven years. If Microsoft haven't offered Win8 as a $10 download, I'll probably still be using Win7 on my current hardware.
Like all creation stories, there might be a grain of truth to the story. Perhaps Noah built a boat for his family and farm animals before the valley got flooded and the water didn't subside until four hours. After the stories were handed through oral tradition and written down, a valley flood has become a world-end wide flood that lasted 40 days and nights.
My aunt in Idaho owns a house in a new development where the back of the property opens to a common field with a lake. Her backyard is both the property AND the field. I expect fences to go up if cows ever escape from the nearby fields to drop cow pies near the houses.
This statement is silly. They are talking about stopping sales of OEM copies. These aren't sold as upgrades. They're sold for new computers.
This statement is unrealistic. When I upgrade my old computer, I buy new hardware and get the Windows OEM disk. The data gets backed up to the file server. The hard drives from the old system are wiped (if not replaced) and installed into the new system. New install from the Windows OEM disk. Data is transferred to new system from the file server. Old computer becomes the new FreeNAS file server.
Post-9/11 America. If you weren't with the United States, you were with the terrorists. No reporter wanted an exclusive jailhouse interview from Gitmo.
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An elderly dummy with a Viagra prescription, seeing how well the woody survives the crash test.
Or make your own meals at home and save money.
When I was in college, we fit 21 people into a station wagon and 19 people into a pickup truck. This was years before the practice was made illegal by state law. I doubt they can get that many dummies into today's cars.
This doesn't remove the fact that you defrauded Microsoft by not informing them that you were using OEM disk on a new machine when asking for reactivation which is explicitly forbidden by the license.
I bought my OEM discs with new hardware (i.e., motherboard, CPU and memory). It's the only way you can buy the OEM discs. The few times that I had to replaced a bad motherboard, and had to call Microsoft to re-activate the license, I informed that I was using a OEM disc. Microsoft didn't have a problem.
The ease of committing these criminal acts does not make it legal or acceptable.
As is the ease of falsely accusing someone of a crime to cover up the losing end of an argument.
What does the guy by Microsoft Office got to do with Microsoft Windows? I don't recall Steve Jobs suing this guy for stealing from Apple. Please fix your post.
I did neither. I paid Microsoft for my OEM discs from Windows 3.11 to Windows 7, and Windows 8 was a $10 download. Microsoft got its pound of flesh.
Yes, I did. My understanding is that you could always transfer Windows to new hardware for the same system. I ran Windows 98 to Window 8 on the same computer since 1997 and probably switched out the motherboard/CPU/memory a dozen times since then.
No. Jobs got his ideas from Xerox. Gates got his ideas from Apple. Nothing has changed since then. After the raging succes of Mac OS X, Microsoft is bringing out Windows OS X.
Everyone and their script kiddy grandmothers have claimed Windows as their own. If you want to earn your hacker creds these days, you need to go after *nix.
Then you specifically violated Microsoft's OEM license under which the OS was licensed to you.
Microsoft had no problem activating Windows XP/Vista/7/8 for each hardware upgrade, especially when I had to call the support number because the online activation didn't work.
Any actual EVIDENCE for that other than the assertions you repeat to your just-as-close-minded friends?
I used to be a Republican. Been there, done that. Go figure.
I originally compared Windows 7 to Windows XP. When my Windows system had XP installed, I bought an OEM disc for the first installation in 2001. Every two years after that, I replaced the underlying hardware. Each time I re-activated the original license after wiping the hard drive and installing from the OEM disc. Microsoft got paid exactly ONCE during those seven years. If Microsoft haven't offered Win8 as a $10 download, I'll probably still be using Win7 on my current hardware.
The Great Flood is fiction.
Like all creation stories, there might be a grain of truth to the story. Perhaps Noah built a boat for his family and farm animals before the valley got flooded and the water didn't subside until four hours. After the stories were handed through oral tradition and written down, a valley flood has become a world-end wide flood that lasted 40 days and nights.
My aunt in Idaho owns a house in a new development where the back of the property opens to a common field with a lake. Her backyard is both the property AND the field. I expect fences to go up if cows ever escape from the nearby fields to drop cow pies near the houses.
Is there any group more intolerant than self-professed "tolerant" liberals?
Republicans in general, Tea Party in particular. Pick your poison.
This statement is silly. They are talking about stopping sales of OEM copies. These aren't sold as upgrades. They're sold for new computers.
This statement is unrealistic. When I upgrade my old computer, I buy new hardware and get the Windows OEM disk. The data gets backed up to the file server. The hard drives from the old system are wiped (if not replaced) and installed into the new system. New install from the Windows OEM disk. Data is transferred to new system from the file server. Old computer becomes the new FreeNAS file server.
Bold, confident one-liners to get that quick +5 but not actually knowing what one is talking about.
You mean I wasn't getting +5 because I was awesome?!
Frankly, I was under impression that OpenBSD didn't support loadable kernel modules at all.
That bug will get fixed soon. One less thing to worry about.
That's a lot of naughty bits of David Hasselhoff.
If you want to run Windows on a 4GB system, be my guess. But you need a 64-bit OS to see more than 4GB of RAM. Most motherboards can run 16GB or 32GB.
Microsoft doens't want Windows 7 to become the next Windows XP and denying them years of upgrade revenues.
What about all those corporations who use Exchange for email? Where does that run?
Hamster on a treadmill wheel.
Why else would Microsoft bring out an OS for older Apple devices?
Might as well bring out Windows Server for the DEC Alpha.
When did this happen?
Post-9/11 America. If you weren't with the United States, you were with the terrorists. No reporter wanted an exclusive jailhouse interview from Gitmo.