Report – Windows 7 is ‘Practically Made for Pirates’
We’re not entirely sure who would be more upset, copyright holders who have been desperately trying to install a three strikes regime everywhere in the world or Microsoft after they receive a lawsuit from those same copyright holders. It’s unlikely that, in the face of the MGM vs. Grokster case, that Microsoft will exactly [...]
Microsoft – We Don’t Have a Monopoly in China Because of Piracy
Here’s a relatively unique way to blame piracy – say that it’s the reason you don’t have a monopoly to avoid anti-trust fines.
There are those that hear the same old tired scapegoat. Profits down? Blame piracy. Sales down? Blame piracy. Sales up? It’s in spite of piracy and there [...]
Vista betas will kill your data
MICROSOFT HAS let it be known that the behaviour of Windows Vista beta copies is about to change fairly substantially.
From May 31, anybody using a beta copy of the OS will find that their machine reboots every two hours, and that intermediate access will be limited to base-level file retrieval. That means that you could [...]
Study: Windows costs $21.50 extra in “patent tax”
According to a calculation done by the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLA), users of Microsoft Windows are paying as much as $21.50 more for each copy of the operating system they buy, thanks to the so-called “patent tax” that Microsoft is forced to pay to various companies that hold software patents.
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Windows Vista Activation Cracked Yet Again
It was just a week ago that Microsoft’s Jim Allchin was talking about Windows Vista security and how the operating system would fend off attacks from malicious code and hackers. Allchin made no mention, however, of the recent successful attempts at cracking Windows Vista’s activation scheme.
Earlier this month, pirates found a way [...]
Windows Vista Activation Permanently Cracked + Proof
Someone by the nickname of Dr Chang has managed to permanently activate Windows without buying it! I’m not sure about this because I have not tried Windows Vista and the crack yet. However, Dr. Chang has included screenshots to proof that it’s true that he managed to crack Windows Vista activation. Dr. Chang tried pushing [...]
Vista to take hard stand against piracy
Microsoft Corp’s forthcoming Windows Vista will take much harsher steps to curtail piracy than previous versions of its operating system, including crippling the usefulness of computers found to be running unlicensed copies of the new software.
The world’s largest software maker said Wednesday that people running a version of Windows Vista that it believes is pirated [...]
S. Korea to get new versions of Windows
Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it would release new versions of Windows in South Korea this week to comply with an antitrust ruling against the U.S. software company.
Earlier this year, the Korea Fair Trade Commission fined Microsoft 32.5 billion won ($34 million) and ordered it to provide two separate versions of Windows, saying the company abused [...]
Apple Slams Windows Vista for ‘Photocopied’ Features
Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering Bertrand Serlet pointed to the desktop search technology built into Windows Vista and compared it to the Searchlight feature in OS X 10.4 Tiger. Serlet furthermore argued that Microsoft mimicked Apple by integrating an RSS reader into its Web browser.
Apple at its annual World Wide Developers Conference [...]
Source: Microsoft not complying with EU
An EU committee ruled on Monday that Microsoft failed to comply with a landmark antitrust decision, paving the way for fines of up to 2 million euros ($2.56 million) a day, a source familiar with the situation said.
Sources had previously told Reuters that the advisory committee would decide against the U.S. software group and that [...]
