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    Microsoft hoping to increase Vista adoption via piracy?

    The anti-piracy system featured in Microsoft's Windows Vista, commonly known as Windows Genuine Advantage, is set to lose its ability to degrade usability. After the deployment of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, non-genuine copies of the operating system will no longer be limited in usability as Microsoft turns back to methods of old.
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    Re: Microsoft hoping to increase Vista adoption via piracy?

    hmmm... so increased piracy? or lack of ability to detect pirate copies? without the ability to define what is/isn't pirate?

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    Re: Microsoft hoping to increase Vista adoption via piracy?

    piracy has always helped microsoft - why consider a "cheap" alternative, when you can get the "real thing" for "free"? it killed off most of the non-msoffice office suites

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    Re: Microsoft hoping to increase Vista adoption via piracy?

    Making the bloody thing work properly with backward compatibility of drivers might help their cause more.
    I've gone back to XP because half of my hardware and a lot of my software isn't supported under Vista.
    Vista is very pretty but unless you have a totally standard system it just doesn't cut it.

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    Re: Microsoft hoping to increase Vista adoption via piracy?

    Quote Originally Posted by Betty_Swallocks View Post
    Making the bloody thing work properly with backward compatibility of drivers might help their cause more.
    I've gone back to XP because half of my hardware and a lot of my software isn't supported under Vista.
    Vista is very pretty but unless you have a totally standard system it just doesn't cut it.
    The blame there lies with third party driver developers - MS' decision to radically alter the driver model was/is a very good decision. I'm all for laying into MS when they do things wrong (and they do) but really, do ya think third parties could of had any more notice of Vista's arrival?
    Feel free to let rip on MS for the networking bug or the lethargy of explorer..
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    Re: Microsoft hoping to increase Vista adoption via piracy?

    I find it hard to believe Microsoft will have done this for altruistic reasons (and 'user feedback') so it sounds like it's either a tacit acknowledgement that they want to increase the user base of Vista or they're finding it harder to differentiate the legitimate and non-legitimate versions.

    A fair few dedicated Windows users of my acquaintance are now using things like Ubuntu as well so I think this is a cynical but sensible step by MS.

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    Re: Microsoft hoping to increase Vista adoption via piracy?

    Can anyone say MONOPOLY?

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    Re: Microsoft hoping to increase Vista adoption via piracy?

    Quote Originally Posted by pollaxe View Post
    I find it hard to believe Microsoft will have done this for altruistic reasons (and 'user feedback') so it sounds like it's either a tacit acknowledgement that they want to increase the user base of Vista or they're finding it harder to differentiate the legitimate and non-legitimate versions.

    A fair few dedicated Windows users of my acquaintance are now using things like Ubuntu as well so I think this is a cynical but sensible step by MS.
    I think they've done it because they've had to - enough people have screamed at them down the phone line (and increased support costs) to make it a problem. Just goes to show that making a stink isn't always a waste of time
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