If anyone's used a crippled copy of windows, you'll know how awesome a job M$ did at protecting their interests. The computer's nearly unusable.
At first it pissed me off. I was working for a client who paid full price to a guy who assured him the copies of XP were legal. Now he had an office-full of machines that barely connected to the internet, and who couldn't access the domain.
Should he have known better? Probably. But the bulletproof part of the whole thing was that when you install WGA, you DO agree to the terms and conditons . . .
There was a lawsuit about this, wasn't there? If they're citing "customer feedback", then they must've won the suit.
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I know. I'm somewhat baffled by this.
If anyone's used a crippled copy of windows, you'll know how awesome a job M$ did at protecting their interests. The computer's nearly unusable.
At first it pissed me off. I was working for a client who paid full price to a guy who assured him the copies of XP were legal. Now he had an office-full of machines that barely connected to the internet, and who couldn't access the domain.
Should he have known better? Probably. But the bulletproof part of the whole thing was that when you install WGA, you DO agree to the terms and conditons . . .
There was a lawsuit about this, wasn't there? If they're citing "customer feedback", then they must've won the suit.
So I wonder why they're backing down.