Atasas Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 Microsoft is to withdraw an anti-piracy tool from Windows Vista, which disables the operating system when invoked, following customer complaints.Full Article on BBCNice, very nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hallelujah Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 Useless anyway; who wants an OS with such a huge footprint and no proper software for it? I wouldn't install it even if I got it for free ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeus_Hunt Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 However, it appears that the antipiracy mechanism couldn’t be removed in time for the RC1 release, so pirates will have to wait until RC2 to get their Windows Vista Free Edition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irefay Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 Useless anyway; who wants an OS with such a huge footprint and no proper software for it? I wouldn't install it even if I got it for free ...Let it be known: Microsoft has developed the ULTIMATE Solution in Piracy Prevention. Create a product in which, anyone who is knowledgeable enough to choose a competitors superior product does so, because these people fit the same demographic profile as Pirates, thus leaving your market saturated with a captive audience to force your bloated mis-engineered product upon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atasas Posted December 6, 2007 Author Share Posted December 6, 2007 Useless anyway; who wants an OS with such a huge footprint and no proper software for it? I wouldn't install it even if I got it for free ...+1 ! and I can not stress any more the point of n00b peeps that are getting it for visual appearance ;) there are plently of nice add ons to make it look nice (I've got on mine apple like at the momment) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dock98 Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 some of us are stuck with it.came on my laptop,almost impossible to change to wxp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atasas Posted December 7, 2007 Author Share Posted December 7, 2007 without full and thorough boot record erase - a problematic task... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bettik Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 Useless anyway; who wants an OS with such a huge footprint and no proper software for it? I wouldn't install it even if I got it for free ...Let it be known: Microsoft has developed the ULTIMATE Solution in Piracy Prevention. Create a product in which, anyone who is knowledgeable enough to choose a competitors superior product does so, because these people fit the same demographic profile as Pirates, thus leaving your market saturated with a captive audience to force your bloated mis-engineered product upon.Best thing that could happen for Linux! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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