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Read MorePiracy Rate of Vista is Half That of XP
Apparently numbers are coming in on the Windows Vista and Microsoft reports that the percentage of people using an illegal copy of Vista is half the percentage of people using a pirated copy of XP. Microsoft representative Mike Sievert claims that this is due to the fact that Vista is much more difficult to pirate compared to XP.
Actually, I’d offer a different opinion. The people that know how to pirate software are usually power users…and power users stick with XP rather than “upgrading” to Vista. The reason for the lower piracy rate is until the bugs are ironed out and that godforsaken pop up that asks you if you want to do anything anytime you press a button is fixed, most people don’t even want to bother pirating Vista. Personally, I have two legitimate copies of Vista running (which I got for free as part of an employee purchase program) but I wish I never installed it in the first place.
Strange thing is, Microsoft is actually in favor of making it easier for people to pirate their latest operating system. When Service Pack 1 is released, Vista will no longer seize up and almost cease to function when it realizes you don’t have a proper key or activation, it will just give you a million notifications asking you to activate and such. Given that Vista already asks you a billion questions in endless pop-ups, what’s another few?
I’ve always said that for every genius programmer in Microsoft’s employ, there are a hundred better ones on the internet who will crack all their work. I don’t encourage piracy in any way (well, I don’t encourage piracy of companies I want to support) but it’s a fact of life that people are always going to want free stuff. It’s only a matter of time before their latest security fixes are broken as well. Heck, my money is on it getting cracked before public release.
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I have download Dell Vista and its free, fully activated.
But I hate Vista. XP is better than vista.
Vista is included in top 10 most terrible tech product on cnet.uk
ReplyThis just proves that people don’t like vista. Pretty much anyone that has ran Vista that I asked for their opinion on the OS, they all said XP was better.
Might have something with it being a huge memory consumer and that pretty much nothing works as it should.
ReplyThe negative thing is that directx 10 will only be released for vista, so it’s just a matter of time before most people will switch to vista whether they like it or not. Which sucks big time.
Last month I bought a Dell Laptop with 2GB RAM & 250GB SATA, Vista XP Home Premium. No problem with the OS till now. Vista look and feel is really good. To comment on the performance, may be I should wait till all of my data is loaded in the hard disk.
ReplyI actually prefer the 64 bit XP system over vista. If it’s performance or just experience related that one kicks vistas ass. The 64 bit Vista system is just nasty with all the bugs right now.
ReplyLol, I can find 101 copies of Vista near my home and on torrents…
Replythis one is definitely an obvious observation
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