Comments on: Microsoft gets serious on Software Pirates

By: Aydin Anway

Aydin Anway — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:43:04 +0000

This one makes sence “One’s first step in wisdom is to kuesstion everything – and one’s last is to come to terms with everything.”

By: winter

winter — Tue, 10 May 2005 13:17:35 +0000

MS products is the reason virii exist. I believe MS lets their products get pirated so they will become popular. You can play rest out yourself…

By: Pat, London

Pat, London — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 20:19:26 +0000

I had trouble copy pasting at one point and Microsoft tech support had the nerve to say that I will be charged Ã‚Â£30 for one query, when is enough enough for this company whom the EU is investigating for market over dominance?

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:22:14 +0000

The way I see it, the vulnerabilities are usually in the microsoft applications – the IE browser, Outlook, Windows media player and so on. As those products cannot be upgraded, people will just replace them with Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird, Winamp, etc. Eventually, an alternate OS. How sweet it is!

By: jon

jon — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 08:06:36 +0000

With the ever growing interest in alternate browsers like firefox, microsoft would be wise to heed a growing move away from their products. I crave an alternate operating system (a little easier than linux!) for the sole purpose of encouraging some competition in this “big brother” dominated market!

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 07:51:36 +0000

All students should receive software for little cost. The problem is most students cant afford to pay, luckily I get the opportunity of being part of the microsoft academic alliance from school. If all students had this opportunity piracy would decrease significantly. We already pay so much for school here in Canada.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 07:36:08 +0000

I think its a good idea for microsoft to just that , I paid for mine , then why shouldn’t everyone also paid , If you don’t paid you don’t use … Its about time ” Microsoft “

By: John

John — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 07:34:08 +0000

It’s the cops and robbers philosophy. Microsoft implements what it believes to be a viable solution to their piracy problem and crackers come out with the “fix” within hours of Microsoft’s release.

By: Mike Busby

Mike Busby — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 07:15:31 +0000

It will be an absolute waste of time as a crack for accessing the websites will probably be available for download with 48 hours of microsofts implementing the programs.

As to Microsofts claim that “installing original copies of Microsoft Operating System would be free from glitches and virues” is a load of bunk. They never have released an Operating System that didnt require major updates, fixes and constant patching. Maybe if they offered their software at a much reduced price then priracy would be significantly reduced.