Remember that MS Email a few weeks ago?

[ajskydiver]

Hi Everyone,

Well, it seems that that fun little email Microsoft sent out has gotten some attention on a much larger scale...

Read About It Here

Odd when you look at the reporting source

~AJ

 

[warlord]

must be the nbc part reporting

 

[Modeps]

yeah, i remember it alright. this is so lame of them. perhaps people want to put linux on their machine, or already have a copy of windows to use?

 

[Double Trouble]

Nothing new under the sun, just Microsoft being Microsoft. They simply can't break out of the pattern they've been following for 20+ years ...

 

[xraymongral]

This is such a lame effort on microsofts part. If a company is using pirated software, I would like to think that they would at least have the sense to get a cheap OS like Linux installed to remove them from suspician of illecet software.

 

[Russ]

Just remember where you heard it first.

Russ, NCNE

 

[UnixFreak]

<< yeah, i remember it alright. this is so lame of them. perhaps people want to put linux on their machine, or already have a copy of windows to use? >>



If they already have a copy of windows to use, they can't, because this is pirating, according to M$. If you read the fine print, when you go to a new system, you buy a new copy of windows, of course, but, when you upgrade the motherboard and processor as a combo, to them, this is a new system, which means you must purchase another version of the OS. If you dont believe me, read the fine print in their licensing agreement. I dont know when it started, but it has been a couple of years now. The fear is, you will upgrade your computer, use the old parts to build a new computer, and copy the OS onto that, and run both computers on one license. This makes sense though, even though I think the licensing is a bit expensive, I think they have a right to do it. They would go out of business if they didnt. Think about it, a company has 1000 computers running windows 2000, and they paid a hundred bucks for it,is getting 100 times the deal joe customer got, who spent 100 bucks for his one computer. They would tank this system wasnt in place.

but asking the techs to report customers running naked systems, is ridicoulous.. totally. Just another desperate attempt for an extra penny if you ask me, and using builders as agents without really paying them. Go linux!