new idea for windows activation scheme

[Guest]

I just want to pass an idea along and see the reaction to it. Anybody else
sick of begging microsoft for use of an OS that you already paid for? I am.
For what you pay for a full version of windows, microsoft can distribute IDE
flash modules instead of CD's or DVD's and be able to write a system checksum
to a EPROM on the module. That way they can get rid of WGA and CDkey's
entirely. You already are supposed to have a windows liscense for each
computer you install the OS on, so what's the difference if they force the
issue. You could then reinstall the OS 1000 times and still be legal(on the
same computer). Maybe they could manage to figure out how to tell the
difference, between a new CPU and a new motherboard. IF the checksum on the
module is based on just the motherboard, then gamers could still add new
videocards/nics/cpus/etc and still pass WGA without reactivating thier copy
of windows. I know a NIC has a unique mac address and that's why MS uses it
with the "voting" system for WGA, but why do you need to reactivate windows
if you stick a different NIC card in the machine? Stupid. Something needs to
happen with WGA, I'm getting sick of the mess MS created for itself. Maybe if
they figured this out and relaxed thier little policy a little, they could
create a great OS that nobody would want to pirate because it was so good.
People would actually want to pay for a copy of windows. Look at mac users.
They all buy every little upgrade Jobs makes and love it. But on the other
hand Apple doesn't make upgrades that are counter-productive, like a
drastically new OS that operates completely differently every 10 years. Just
my 2 cents, anybody else know how MS could actually let us own a copy of
windows that's ours to do anything we want with it. I quess the users have to
figure it out be cause MS can't. Like MS can't figure out how to keep thier
OS from being inudated with spyware, but they can sell windows onecare that
supposed to magically make a problem go away that should never have existed
in the first place.

 

[Guest]

You forget that Microsoft operates on the Greed principle, and once they have
your money, you are of no value to them and they could care less what you
think.

As for stopping piracy, the ONLY way they will stop that is to sell the
product for the $30.00 max that it is really worth. (They charge more than a
months wages in some countries for the product, no wonder those same people
work so hard to pirate it.) But of course the Greed principle that governs
EVERY action they take prevents that, and encourages them to keep Bugs,
defects, bad design choices etc in place as long as possible, to help
increase their 1-900 profits. You see most people who come up across bugs
etc, don't have the expertease to prove that MS is the cause, so MS gets to
charge 1-900 fees for all their bugs, and all they have to due is blame the
problem on the "other" guy. Thats why you still can't run Sysprep on a
system with WMP 11 installed, or upgrade any Windows OS to Vista if you are
using a Raid or any HD controller which MS does not include support for (Most
Raids ect.) without getting stuck in a endless loop of BSODs. (MS forgot to
provide a way during an "Upgrade" to Vista to get your drivers installed, and
if going from working Vista to Vista, they left out the common sense to use
the EXISTING working Vista drivers for the Vista to Vista upgrade path.)
These are just a few of the current bugs I am dealing with. These bugs have
been out WAY to long not to have been fixed by MS had they not been operating
on the principles of Greed. But alas they do and so the chances of ever
seeing a fix for these, and many other similar problems are pretty much nil.

Anyway thats my opinion, I could be wrong, but so far all the evidence says
I am right. I dare Bill to prove me wrong and with lots of press and fanfare
release the fixes with in the next 24 hrs for these problems or publicly
explain, and prove why they the richest most technologically savvy company
in the world have not been able to do it.

Needless to say my dare will go on deaf ears, because "greed" works best and
without guilt if the batteries for the hearing aids have been removed and the
truth and complaints can't be heard.


Ralph Malph