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    It's about time

    http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31276

    Quote Originally Posted by the inquirer
    MICROSOFT HAS BEEN quietly piloting its Software Genuine Advantage programme in Norway and in Sweden since November.

    This week, the scheme has been be extended to the United States, United Kingdom, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand.

    Details of the scheme have been available for some while on this page here, where we found the text of the message you can expect to see on your screen should you be considered a pirate:

    "It appears that you could be a victim of software piracy. The copy of Windows installed on this computer is not considered to be genuine by Microsoft.

    The notification will continue to display until your computer is running genuine Microsoft Windows."

    Microsoft says that every time a notification is displayed, the user will receive detailed information about the specific validation failure. The information includes steps that can be taken to resolve the problem.

    These don't seem to include, "try Linux instead".
    To err is human. To really foul things up ... you need a computer.

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    So, is this different from the validation check the MS site goes through when you download updates etc?

    I run all genuine software her and at work, so i don't know what message you get when you dont

    (btw, the Action Pack is great, highly recomended )

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    The majority of people that are running illegal software ,know they are. All this means is that some guy in his bedroom will have to spend a few hours cracking this for the masses.

    While it may prove helpful for those people who have genuinely been caught out, for all of the “real” pirates out there, it wont make a blind bit of difference.
    If anything, it will probably cause more inconvenience to the masses of people that will get false positives.
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    TTIUWP, oh wait.. theres some here

    http://www.aviransplace.com/index.ph...he-next-level/

    Can't you turn off WGA in IE through disabling the plugin? Or has this just fixed that amongst bringing in nagging?

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    Thought the other headline on the Inquirer was fairly typical of the way things are going

    "Piracy worse than child pornography"

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    Agent, you'd be suprised how many people buy pirate copies, often without realising it. I hate thouse people, its like saying you can't blame drug dealers been there because their drug addicts about... sure you can.

    People who know their doing wrong, will find a new way round it, it takes effort, some people might realise that the £70 isn't really that bad a price when you think that its lasted well over 4 years. Lets think of it as a £1.50 a month fee. Hell yeh its worth that, if not install another OS. Stealing it is wrong when its so fairly priced. So MS pissing off people who are running their OS illegally, so what, as long as it dosen't malfunction and start occoring on legal copies.

    Now as for office, that's a ***king rip off, one version barely lasts 2 years (office 2000, XP, 2003!!?!) and costs a bloody bomb.
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    MS makes most of its money from Office iirc
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hans Voralberg
    MS makes most of its money from Office iirc
    Indeed, i was once told it was over 90% taking into account how many people use windows JUST because of office been there, also it has very little support cost thats directly attributable to it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Saracen View Post
    And by trying to force me to like small pants, they've alienated me.

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