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XP piracy rates drop thanks to campaign and WGA
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article published on 19 October, 2006
Microsoft Corp.'s latest tactic against those pirating its software in the U.K. appears to be paying off, and has reduced the piracy rate sooner than expected.
The software maker's "Keep IT Real" programme, which it first launched back in February, has seen piracy rate for its Windows XP operating system drop from 16.7 percent to 12.4 percent according to its head of antipiracy for the ... [ read the full article ]
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20. October 2006 @ 22:13 |
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bah I ahte SP1 for other reasons so I would rather not :P
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nigeljkuk
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21. October 2006 @ 14:59 |
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Some interesting comments, I went back to 98se for a brief perd messed around with linux to no avail , put xp on my desktop switched off upodates in msconfig and installed bigfix which gave me some of the main critical patches , installed surf anonymizer to hopefully effectively hide a wee bit! whilst surfing and installed the latest AVG 7.5 and a few other progs to protect my pc , I found out a program exists called autopatcher which may be of interest to you all , but im no teckie just a beginner but it apparently gets you all the pathes you need but uses bit torrent summat I know little about.
I do know that wga aint coming on my pc not ever, incidently there was a good article in micromart magazine about good old ms plans with media player 11 you would all be wise not to install this either , that is if you want to keep control of your video and audio downloads and not have to ask their permission to get licenses back for stuff youve downloaded, also they want to tell you i believe what you can and cant do with audio files youve created yourself It beggars belief!!
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21. October 2006 @ 15:05 |
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nigeljkuk
98se is not that bad I ran it for years with teh right patches and right programs and hardware it can run as good or better than XP but XPSP1 is a bit easier to handled even tho tis has higher reqs,Lunix is tricker but about even with XPSP1 on everything but games.
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LivnLoud
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21. October 2006 @ 15:52 |
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There is a downloadable PS2 online, so you dont have to worry about it.
All About F*cking The MPAA&RIAA Over!
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21. October 2006 @ 16:03 |
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Not too much of a problem here yet,even after I got hit with the WGA thing I just replaced the files and then turned on automatic updates. I only get the critical updates,but that's all I need really. Just have it ask you to aprove the install of the updates and refuse the WGA one out of the list and it shouldbe good. At least it is for me.
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21. October 2006 @ 17:17 |
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What amazes me about all this is the fact they gloat about this. When as a matter of fact. This will just intice the people out there to keep working at it too make the thing soo cracked that Microsoft hast to comletley change the engine again.
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plastruk
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21. October 2006 @ 17:27 |
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There will always be ways around all things thanks to wonderful programmers out there. As far as XP and Office go there are now some good alternatives which are getting better all of the time. Try UBUNTU for a OS and Open Office instead of MS Office. We have choices dont let MS tell you what and how to run your computer. Plus the idiots dont realize that people will just not update if they have no choice and virus's will run rampant thru the net - Good job MS
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MarcioAB
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21. October 2006 @ 20:40 |
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Over here, the majority of PC offerings comes with Linux out-the-box due price competition on PC marketplace, leaving the buyer the option to buy and install the OEM version of Windows XP Pro or Home. The low entry PC price is US$400 and the Windows XP Pro is US$325 leaving a 55%/45% HW/SW ratio (not considering Office and others).
Let's assume with Vista some day this phone-home technics really works and people (not Enterprises) end up with ONLY 3 options: Pay US$325 for Vista or Linux or Pirated-XP. What people will choose ?
I guess 33% each.
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CTerrian
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22. October 2006 @ 05:29 |
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You really don't own the software when you buy it. Read the license agreement. After reading Vista's license agreement, I'm switching to Apple. ;^)
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Cirric
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22. October 2006 @ 10:36 |
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After 'trying' XP Pro for quite a while, I finally bought the on-line 'update to genuine' from M$. First thing they did to thank me for my $149 was disable 'Office XP', remove 'DVD43', eliminate the speelchecker from Outlook Express (which uses the Office XP dictionary) and only 'they' know what else. I reached my limit though when the Auto Update installed something which required a reboot and, since I wasn't around, just went ahead and rebooted without my permission. This halted the computer at the login screen. Glad that M$ was sure I was not doing anything critical when they shut me down! I think Billy left just in time.
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22. October 2006 @ 10:50 |
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MS and the media mafiaa do not belive in fair use it is thier toy and they are free to bash your head in when others are not looking.
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drakshug
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22. October 2006 @ 12:53 |
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Thanks MS! All your anti piracy crap and cluttering up the hdd with updates has meant that I am now full time linux except for burning lightscribe discs.
Their figures are crap. A simple serial generator and a registry fix will get your illegal xp up and running, even with auto updates. Most people don't even bother with updating from M$ but get it from other update sources (one prog was already mentioned).
I object to paying money for a product that is so flawed it needs fixes almost every day and still won't run day in day out. I also object to paying money for a product which turns out to be only leased to me. If M$ were Volkswagen, do you think they'd still be in business with such a product. If xp were a car you'd have to put it in for a service every month and whenever you put in a new component it wouldn't start. Every time you went on a long journey it would stall and it would tell the manufacturer where you were. Hmmm! They have had the monopoly too long. I think people are going to move over in droves to OSX and linux. Isn't there a new linux flavour that runs like windows for all the noobs from windows?
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minipod1
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22. October 2006 @ 18:23 |
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If you need to use Microsoft Update - STOP !!
Go to www.autopatcher.com and will be surprised to find a nifty but totally free downloadable file which you can burn to CD and update your Windows software to the latest updates and security fixes.
You don't need to go to microsoft for updates any more when you can use this free software that has no warnings and lockouts.
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23. October 2006 @ 03:40 |
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Love it Zippy "MS gets its numbers from the mafiaa ^^" too funny....
I've Never used AutoPatcher looks a lot like WPI installer pretty cool, remember though you DON'T need/want WGA updates at least yet. MS is trying to force everyone to install WGA and are working on this right now. I think there will still be away around it when they come up with their final scheme.
Nice site minipod1 good post.
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MightyOne
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23. October 2006 @ 09:33 |
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As someone else wrote in another article...on this site...u can do updates at
www.windizupdate.com
U just don't use Internet Explorer.
Before u do your updates....hit the details button. You might be surpised at what kind of information is passed to the one who supplies the updates. Most programs with serial numbers are in this file. I realize they need to the check your registry to determine what updates u need, but they really don't need the sn. Kind of scary really.
www.windizupdate.com has worked for me for sometime now. No WGA crap
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TazmanYo
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27. October 2006 @ 10:51 |
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These are just statistics. Statistics are useless, you can make them say whatever you need them to say. More likely, people are wising up and not letting THE MAN know that they have a copy.
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