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I build and repair computers and from time to time come across pirated copies
of XP. Some I refuse to touch but others, where people are genuinely
surprised that they have a bent copy, I will work on, subject to their buying
a legal copy.
I believe Microsoft should acknowledge and assist the trade in these matters
and make it easier for us to activate a new copy of XP rather than having to
format to destroy the old installation and reinstall everything from scratch.
If a user has genuinely been misled into buying a computer with a bent copy,
and then does the decent thing, why should they suffer the extra cost of
having to put all their programmes back in to the new installation.
This is actually counter-productive. Some people prefer to keep their bent
copy pf Windows rather than pay the costs of all the time it takes to
reinstall the whole thing. I've known it to happen where they are quite
happy to buy the proper, legal product but not stand the costs of a copmlete
format and reinstall.
Come on Microsoft - give the trade credit for trying to fight this battle
with you. Give us an added option in Activation procedures. Let us use the
Change Product Key facility to show that a legal copy has been bought.
Do I have any support for this view?
of XP. Some I refuse to touch but others, where people are genuinely
surprised that they have a bent copy, I will work on, subject to their buying
a legal copy.
I believe Microsoft should acknowledge and assist the trade in these matters
and make it easier for us to activate a new copy of XP rather than having to
format to destroy the old installation and reinstall everything from scratch.
If a user has genuinely been misled into buying a computer with a bent copy,
and then does the decent thing, why should they suffer the extra cost of
having to put all their programmes back in to the new installation.
This is actually counter-productive. Some people prefer to keep their bent
copy pf Windows rather than pay the costs of all the time it takes to
reinstall the whole thing. I've known it to happen where they are quite
happy to buy the proper, legal product but not stand the costs of a copmlete
format and reinstall.
Come on Microsoft - give the trade credit for trying to fight this battle
with you. Give us an added option in Activation procedures. Let us use the
Change Product Key facility to show that a legal copy has been bought.
Do I have any support for this view?