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drb
Titel: Have you been duped? MS to the rescue!  BeitragVerfasst am: 04.07.2006, 13:59 Uhr



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Link to :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5144698.stm

How many customers have been crying out? Anyone here?

If someone has not been "open and honest", what have they been?

Is your installed version of WGA genuine? Need another tool - perhaps the WGAGA tool?

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michael7
Titel: Great comment on BBC website  BeitragVerfasst am: 05.07.2006, 00:32 Uhr



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Here is a great comment from Matt Silvester of Birmingham, England that he posted on that same BBC website. It sums up my feelings exactly. Think about the poor woman with a dial up connection and every time she boots up, Windows wants to dial Redmond.

"As a freelance IT technician, I have experienced my fair share of WGA problems.

From a simple error indicating that a legitimate copy is actually illegal (even with the holographic sticker on the side of the machine), to a more general problem of people who do not have broadband.

One of my clients has become very frustrated that each time her machine is booted, it tries to dial the internet which she has to repeatedly cancel.

We are already seeing swarms of modified WGA downloads available via a simple Google search.

This will now make it even more difficult as you don't know if the installed version of WGA is even genuine, let alone the copy of Windows XP itself.

I completely understand the need to reduce piracy, but maybe this facility should have been integrated into Windows Vista as standard, rather than causing problems with countless existing systems.

Software piracy is a problem, and as I write software myself, I too see the need to protect ones itellectual rights. I do however feel that eventually software will turn to Unix/Linux's approach and be free to use, but paid for via technical support."

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Titel:   BeitragVerfasst am: 05.07.2006, 09:15 Uhr



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"It is the fate of operating systems to become free." -- Neal Stephenson, In the Beginning was the Command Line (1999)

Zitat:
"Customers have been crying out for a tool which could tell them if they have been duped," [Michala Alexander, head of anti-piracy for Microsoft, in the UK] said.

The survey Microsoft took was not released publicly, but a leaked copy was obtained. The results were startling. Of the customers Microsoft found to be "crying out" for WGA-like software, 98% of them also admitted to enjoying random electric shocks; 85% said they "rather liked" visits to the dentist; and 72% claimed they would pay taxes even if it weren't compulsory.
 
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drb
Titel:   BeitragVerfasst am: 05.07.2006, 10:56 Uhr



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I'm surprised the 72% is so low - more like 100% would make sense for a group of people who pay money for software which they can get for free.

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