OS Piracy, how prevalent is it among people who build their own pcs?

[Xavier434]

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: BigJ
Going to college has it perks.

MSDNAA gives me Vista Business and XP Pro for free. I got Vista Ultimate from the school bookstore for $14.95. I know I wind up paying for it anyway through tuition, but it's a nice illusion.

Your school doesn't pay nearly as much as it would really cost to buy all of that software at retail, so you're not paying much tuition for it. MSDNAA is really cheap.

I know, but we still wind up shelling out some money for it. So while not free, we probably get a huge discount on the stuff. Especially when you add in all the other stuff on MSDNAA (Server 2003, 2000, SQL, Visual Studio, etc).

MS likes to visit colleges for conventions quite often. Keep an eye out for those events. They often give away free "Academic" versions of software at them which are usually just as good as retail versions. Few notice any differences.

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: Barrak
I use it for work sometimes, so I am under our volume liscense

:thumbsup:

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: Xavier434

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: BigJ
Going to college has it perks.

MSDNAA gives me Vista Business and XP Pro for free. I got Vista Ultimate from the school bookstore for $14.95. I know I wind up paying for it anyway through tuition, but it's a nice illusion.

Your school doesn't pay nearly as much as it would really cost to buy all of that software at retail, so you're not paying much tuition for it. MSDNAA is really cheap.

I know, but we still wind up shelling out some money for it. So while not free, we probably get a huge discount on the stuff. Especially when you add in all the other stuff on MSDNAA (Server 2003, 2000, SQL, Visual Studio, etc).

MS likes to visit colleges for conventions quite often. Keep an eye out for those events. They often give away free "Academic" versions of software at them which are usually just as good as retail versions. Few notice any differences.

Oh I know. I'm part of our college's "computing society" and actually work with the university to bring them here

 

[Juno]

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: BigJ
Going to college has it perks.

MSDNAA gives me Vista Business and XP Pro for free. I got Vista Ultimate from the school bookstore for $14.95. I know I wind up paying for it anyway through tuition, but it's a nice illusion.

Your school doesn't pay nearly as much as it would really cost to buy all of that software at retail, so you're not paying much tuition for it. MSDNAA is really cheap.

I know, but we still wind up shelling out some money for it. So while not free, we probably get a huge discount on the stuff. Especially when you add in all the other stuff on MSDNAA (Server 2003, 2000, SQL, Visual Studio, etc).

still, for me, it's unfair to other students. at my school, RIT, engineering, computer science and information technology majors are given free access to MSDNAA. so thus, i had to nag my friends to give me free copies because my major didn't fit into that category (industrial design.)

 

[xanis]

I bought an OEM copy of XP Home w/ SP2 about 3 years ago. Before that I was running a pirated copy of XP Pro. The OEM license XP disc was well-worth it for saving me hassle... and keeping things legal of course. Now I have a Macbook Pro with OSX Tiger, which is legit.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: Xavier434

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: BigJ
Going to college has it perks.

MSDNAA gives me Vista Business and XP Pro for free. I got Vista Ultimate from the school bookstore for $14.95. I know I wind up paying for it anyway through tuition, but it's a nice illusion.

Your school doesn't pay nearly as much as it would really cost to buy all of that software at retail, so you're not paying much tuition for it. MSDNAA is really cheap.

I know, but we still wind up shelling out some money for it. So while not free, we probably get a huge discount on the stuff. Especially when you add in all the other stuff on MSDNAA (Server 2003, 2000, SQL, Visual Studio, etc).

MS likes to visit colleges for conventions quite often. Keep an eye out for those events. They often give away free "Academic" versions of software at them which are usually just as good as retail versions. Few notice any differences.

yeap. you can sign up to be "invited" to events to where they give out software. went to one in Rockford and got Vista ultimate, MS office and something else. just have to spend a hour or two listening to them talk about how good the software is.

 

[RichardE]

Legit XP pro here,


Pirated office though

 

[azilaga]

All legit for me as well.

 

[SSSnail]

Well, my copies aren't exactly pirated, I just move the licenses from the old discarded PCs over to the new build.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Originally posted by: SSSnail
Well, my copies aren't exactly pirated, I just move the licenses from the old discarded PCs over to the new build.

Interestingly enough, the serial from my old Dell with Windows XP worked with my custom built computer. :laugh:

 

[ryan256]

I see no need for be to rebuy XP when I build a new computer. The old computer is parted out so the license is not being used on 2 machines at once. Micro$oft says the OS license dies with the hardware. I say F that.
So yeah I guess my copy of XP is technically pirated.