bytech
Joined: 01 Jun 2005
Posts: 38
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As you might have already heard M$ is planning to begin checking for pirate copies of Winblows when you connect for updates. This is supposed to start mid 2005 and be done through a scan of your PC. Not exactlly sure how they will know if the copy is hacked or not, but I am sure they have their spyware in place to find that out somehow.
To start the checks will be made only with the manual updates, so if you take everything M$ wants you to (bad idea for many reasons, unless you are totally new to PCs in which case the auto update is a good idea), they won't check for pirate copies...
The idea of course is to reduce piracy. I think it will do quite the opposite: more exposed PCs to launch more attacks on other PCs. DOS would become an every day term that even children understand. Plus, M$ bugs would be haunting half of the world, and M$ reputation would suffer either way.
With the outrageous price of Winblows I suspect more and more people giving a shot at Linux and other platforms. Many of those using pirate copies cannot afford the software, or do not want to support a monopoly that they are forced to work with.
I think this step is a great opportunity for Linux. That, and once and for all setteling the argument over if every copy pirated means revenue lost for the company (companies producing the software often insist that if everyone who pirates a copy couldn't do so, they would ALL buy it simply because they used a pirated copy... BS if you ask me. I'd say if 50% of those pirating bough because there was no other way to use the software, you'd have a SMASHING success beyond anything you should ever have expected in the first place).
Anyway, the M$ patch limitation story can be found at many places around the net, including http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...icrosoft_piracy
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