Microsoft executive: Pirating software? Choose Microsoft!
section: microsoft, for your questions: KezNews forum, 15.3.2007
Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversMicrosoft doesn't want you to pirate their software, but if you must choose between illegally installing Windows or a competitor's operating system, Microsoft would prefer that you choose them.
While the company obviously won't endorse the illegal use of software, it does believe that piracy can result in profit.
At the Morgan Stanley Technology conference last week in San Francisco, Microsoft business group president Jeff Raikes commented on the benefits of software counterfeiting. "If they're going to pirate somebody, we want it to be us rather than somebody else," he said. "We understand that in the long run the fundamental asset is the installed base of people who are using our products. What you hope to do over time is convert them to licensing the software."
While Raikes' words do not appear to echo the sentiments of his company at first, what he said actually fits right into Microsoft's agenda. Over the last two years, the company has been heading a global effort to crack down on piracy, specifically the piracy of Microsoft products. In a memo on product activation, the company even states, "Software piracy is an enormous drain on the global economy, according to the 2000 BSA Software Piracy Report." Though many have argued that the BSA report was wildly inaccurate, Microsoft still uses whatever weapons it can find to convert pirates into customers. Just as the "Get the Facts" campaign is intended to sway users from Linux, Microsoft's antipiracy offensive aims to sway users away from Windows—counterfeit Windows that is.
According to Raikes' numbers, 20 to 25 percent of all software that is used in the United States is pirated. To Microsoft, those people are all potential customers, and in many ways the company's antipiracy campaign is equivalent to a large marketing push. The FUD, eye-catching images, and cheesy slogans (e.g. Get Genuine) all fit into the scheme. Once a person is converted into a user of Genuine Microsoft software, I highly doubt he will ever stray back to the dark side, but that's just a hunch.
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Comments(13)
yeah!! it´s the big brother, pal!! less is more! isn´t it!?
yesssssssssssssssssssss aaa
.... and i won't cum in yer mouth!!!
yeah, and pirating software makes you go blind as well...
lower price of vista ultimate to $50.00
just because someone pirates a program doesn't mean they'd pay for it. its hard to say
how much piracy actually costs as a lot of piracy is a result of not being able to afford
the product to begin with. no sale costs just as much as a pirated copy someone can't
afford. actually, its almost better for the company for the software to be pirated than
simply not purchased. it gets the user familiar with the software and more likely to buy
future versions.
say microsoft does make an os thats 100% uncrackable, does
that mean that "25%" is going to magically find $300 in their wallet and want to piss it
on some mediocre visual enhancements and half assed security?
no, if microsoft
ever does root out piracy, they're just going to find that 25% using linux for free and
find out that linux can actually have more features and execute them better than windows
can ever hope to steal.
make it more affordable and maybe you would
not have to worry so much about piracy.
you people are filthy rich now. give the poor a chance to experience what you have to
offer.your doing the same thing by charging
the terrible prices you ask of us.
i'm selling genuine keys for vista home premium, ultimate and business for people in
usa.
if you're not in usa, i can trade them with 1 year rapidshare premium
accounts.
contact me at hwh1226@hotmail.com
it's already well known and stated before - microsoft admits that they wouldn't have
been so popular if it wasn't for pirated copies of their oses. and they rather see their
os get pirated than the macos x. this way, they gain you as a customer elsewhere (other
software, hardware, etc). also, when they become harder to crack (look what happened when
vista came out), many people cried "i'm switching to linux or mac!" - but how many who
cried that actually did the switch? most of them just gave up and bought vista (either in
a form of a new pc with vista pre-installed, or as an upgrade).
me? i'm gonna
do what microsoft doesn't want me to do... i'll pirate their competeing os - linux!
mwhahaha...
i`ve installed a pirated copy of vista ultimate today and bought a crack from microsoft.
this crack from microsoft works 100% and is the best yet, it even validated my copy of
vista. thanks microsoft, your cracks work the best.
leave that moneymaking microsofties and install ubuntu...see the differences between two
operatingsystems getting smaller..no activation..no virusses..
all for free !!
fûck price for vista! that shit should be free
yep the high price put me off.....i was actually going to buy it till i seen the ripoff
price of it! (uk here)
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By greenpistach on 15.03.2007 - 19:03