This copy of Windows is not genuine

[kurttrail]

And since no one is forcing you to use Windows, you are free to find
something that pleases you more than windows. If was really as bad as
you state, you would not be using it yourself.

I know how to protect myself from Microsoft's anti-consumer malware,
just like any other malware. Most computer users don't know how.

--
Peace!
Kurt Kirsch
Self-anointed Moderator
http://microscum.com
"It'll soon shake your Windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."

 

[bill]

FWIW
This is a very helpful site. My only regret is that it came on-line
too late for me. But the problem is in permissions and happens
when you have the new 'tool' and user or limited account and
no read/write access to a file. I got lots of help via email and
it was to the point and prompt.
Bill
Atlanta

 

[Gman]

The malware is Microsoft's creation. It is useless to the End User, the

paying customer.

Kurt,

I enjoy your humorous posts ragging MS and others, and I don't like to
feel imposed upon any more than does the average Jane or Joe. However,
MS does have the right (and an obligation to their investors) to
protect their intellectual property. If there weren't bad guys out
there determined to illegally benefit finacially from everything MS
develops, MS wouldn't have to use things like WGA to route out their
ill-gotten gains. I'm not an MS bigot, just a seasoned business person
who knows the necessity of protecting corporate assets.

If it weren't for the bad guys, we all wouldn't have to endure a lot of
inconvenient things, like the security harassment one has to put up to
fly these days, or the prospects of building fences at the border to
keep some folks out (and others in). No one likes it, but
unfortunately, the actions of a few bad guys (and the potential actions
of others) make it manditory.

Though big corporations and governments can be heavy-handed in their
enforements, sometimes, that's the only way to get some folks
attention.

I do agree that it is important for the common good that opposing
voices be heard, so keep up the posts, and maintain the humor.

Peace back at you.

 

[NoNoBadDog!]

Yet another case that proves that WGA only inconveniences paying customers
and doesn't affect piracy one iota.

Hanna, click on the balloon that tells you it's a pirated XP and follow
the instructions. When you get MS on the phone, give them holy hell.

Alias

Would you like some cheese to go with that whine?

Bobby

 

[kurttrail]

Kurt,

I enjoy your humorous posts ragging MS and others, and I don't like to
feel imposed upon any more than does the average Jane or Joe.
However, MS does have the right (and an obligation to their
investors) to protect their intellectual property. If there weren't
bad guys out there determined to illegally benefit finacially from
everything MS develops, MS wouldn't have to use things like WGA to
route out their ill-gotten gains. I'm not an MS bigot, just a
seasoned business person who knows the necessity of protecting
corporate assets.

If it weren't for the bad guys, we all wouldn't have to endure a lot
of inconvenient things, like the security harassment one has to put
up to fly these days, or the prospects of building fences at the
border to keep some folks out (and others in). No one likes it, but
unfortunately, the actions of a few bad guys (and the potential
actions of others) make it manditory.

Though big corporations and governments can be heavy-handed in their
enforements, sometimes, that's the only way to get some folks
attention.

I do agree that it is important for the common good that opposing
voices be heard, so keep up the posts, and maintain the humor.

Peace back at you.

Well, I would suggest that all of MS's copy-protection schemes end up
costing MS's investors more than if MS didn't bother with it.

Development costs, infrastructure costs, ill-will of consumers that have
been screwed by various copy-protection errors.

Do you know that the piracy rate was higher in 1994, before most homes
had a PC, than the year before MS first introduced Product Activation,
and had been steadily declining since 1994? Do you know that since the
MS introduced PA that the piracy rate stopped its decline?

Copy-protection doesn't really work, and that is bad for investors.
Just look at MS's stock price since they introduced Product Activation.

--
Peace!
Kurt Kirsch
Self-anointed Moderator
http://microscum.com
"It'll soon shake your Windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."

 

[Alias]

Well, I would suggest that all of MS's copy-protection schemes end up
costing MS's investors more than if MS didn't bother with it.

Development costs, infrastructure costs, ill-will of consumers that have
been screwed by various copy-protection errors.

Do you know that the piracy rate was higher in 1994, before most homes
had a PC, than the year before MS first introduced Product Activation,
and had been steadily declining since 1994? Do you know that since the
MS introduced PA that the piracy rate stopped its decline?

Copy-protection doesn't really work, and that is bad for investors.
Just look at MS's stock price since they introduced Product Activation.

There you go again, trying to confuse these MS lovers with facts.

Alias

 

[Gman]

Kurt, good points all, providing of course, that those are facts versus
opinions. Maybe there wasn't anything worth pirating after 1994?
Could XP really be that good? Or was it because the OEM's bundled it
on about every PC shipped, and no one needed a pirated copy, except
those who build their own systems.

As to management's response to Wall Street's investors expecting
management to protect the corporation's assets with intrusive schemes
(think Sony), they are kind of like the US government's response to the
tax-paying constituents who are demanding that the borders be secured
with a fence. Once the southern border is secure(?), next fence -
Canada, then the California coast, then the Florida's coast, and then,
and then............

Well, I know you get the point, there is no fail-safe way to protect
anything, but they have to try. There will always be some smart bad
guys that will foil any scheme. The best one can do is stop the dumb
ones and slow down the smart ones.

OBTW, if PA were the cause of MSFT's malaise, I think good old Bill
would halt that activity post-haste, don't you?

 

[kurttrail]

Kurt, good points all, providing of course, that those are facts
versus opinions. Maybe there wasn't anything worth pirating after
1994? Could XP really be that good? Or was it because the OEM's
bundled it on about every PC shipped, and no one needed a pirated
copy, except those who build their own systems.

Then the expense of development and maintaining the PA infrastructure
really was throwing investers money down the toilet.

As to management's response to Wall Street's investors expecting
management to protect the corporation's assets with intrusive schemes
(think Sony), they are kind of like the US government's response to
the tax-paying constituents who are demanding that the borders be
secured with a fence. Once the southern border is secure(?), next
fence - Canada, then the California coast, then the Florida's coast,
and then, and then............

Money father and his family escaped from East Germany. Walls and fences
don't work.

Well, I know you get the point, there is no fail-safe way to protect
anything, but they have to try.

LOL! Yes, cut off the nose to spite the face.

There will always be some smart bad
guys that will foil any scheme. The best one can do is stop the dumb
ones and slow down the smart ones.

OBTW, if PA were the cause of MSFT's malaise, I think good old Bill
would halt that activity post-haste, don't you?

No. I think the corporate copyright elite can't see past their pocket
books, and really are deluding themselves that by trying to control
every aspect of their products is what is best. I don't believe they
see the actual harm they are doing to themselves by making it harder for
their paying customers to use their products.

--
Peace!
Kurt Kirsch
Self-anointed Moderator
http://microscum.com
"It'll soon shake your Windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."

 

[Jerry Hatrick]

Would you like some cheese to go with that whine?

Bobby

No, not cheese. Ice cream goes much better with wine! I scream and
wine!