Microsoft attempts to prevent legal licence transfers.
POSTED BY: citizen
UPDATED: Thursday, October 19, 2006 20:13
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I imagine their plan will be much like it always has been: to flood the market with products that only work on Vista. Games system requirements, free or cheap media playing programs, etc. Conspire to restrict access to only Windows drivers for all hardware devices. Pay web sites to use coding that only Vista or IE7 can recognize, 'discover' new critical security flaws on XP that can't be patched. Basically make it impossible to carry out standard computing activities with anything other than their latest product. I wouldn't put it past them to deploy XP-specific viruses and worms.
I'm reminded of Coke. I did my undergrad at Ohio State, which basically sold itself to Coke- only Coke at all vending machines, all campus restaurants, logos on pretty much all official products. You had to travel some distance to find a Pepsi product (not that I particularly like either of these). Then at all the games some robotic announcer would enthusiatically thank everyone for 'choosing' Coca-Cola. Always Coca Cola!!!
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At least the EU is chipping away at it.
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Originally posted by BillGates:
But like many commodities in the market, such as the condom, it’s only supposed to be used once.
Bill
You're only supposed to use a condom once?
Man, do I feel foolish now...
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... so uhhmmm, ... how many kids do you have now?
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I use PCs at work (company required). And they are adequate/workmanlike given the IT support that the corporation provides.
But where I have a choice (i.e., my personal computer at home), I've been a Mac user since 1989. I've never regretted a single Mac that I've owned/used. I consider it a more stable, and user friendly OS.
This new licensing decision for Vista is one of the reasons that I try to steer clear of MS OS's whenever I can. I just don't like to support a company that engages in such predatory practices.
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