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Estimated 60 Million PCs Running Pirated Windows Vista

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In excess of 60 million PCs per year running pirated Windows Vista would be a worst case scenario for Microsoft. The $40 billion loss that the software industry has to take is correlated with no less than over 35% of products being pirated. Sievert estimated that over 60 million machines each year end up with some form of pirated Windows on them.

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Liberal, on 7/12/2007 11:46:17 AM
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yeah fuck microsoft, proud member of that 60 million.

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Dex, on 7/12/2007 11:48:28 AM
Total Posts: 102, Joined: 6/6/2007

...at least 1/2 are in China

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bulshoy, on 7/12/2007 12:39:30 PM
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I'm gonna stick to my pirated XP for now.

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Liberal, on 7/12/2007 4:42:27 PM
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^the important thing is its pirated.

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scout, on 7/13/2007 12:30:11 AM
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Count me in ,in the 60 million club.Yay i belong at last.

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Qball1974, on 7/13/2007 3:05:07 PM
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I'm gonna stick to my pirated XP for now.

lol me to

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pether, on 7/13/2007 3:06:18 PM
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I got XP when i bought a computer many years ago.
But have used a pirated copy since my first format/new computers.

Since you can only use your code on one computer, if you uninstall windows, you cant use it again and you have to buy a new copy, for 100$+.

Stealing money much?

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rabidchipmunk, on 7/13/2007 3:19:48 PM
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The thing Microsoft doesn't realize is that if they allowed a copy of windows to be run on every computer in a household, and that copy would continue to work should a user buy a new system or upgrade and then reinstall the OS on their current machine, buying Windows would seem like a reasonable investment, rahter than a hassle. Would you consider it fair if you bought a PC or playstation game which would only work on the first system on which it was installed?

Plus, the $200 price tag doesn't help. For $50, I'll just buy it, for several hundred, I'm no computer wizard, but it suddenly becomes worth my while to invest enough time into figuring out how to pirate myself a copy, and dealing with all the bullshit that goes along with having a pirate copy...

They say piracy drives costs up, but the reverse is true. High costs drive piracy. Everybody needs an OS, and if the price were reasonable (in comparison to the effort needed to pirate a copy) people would buy.

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/"Admin/", on 7/13/2007 3:23:19 PM
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Much happier with my pirated XP, a friend bought a new laptop the other day and it came with Vista...what a piece of monkeyshit, I tried to setup some stuff for him and it just enraged me.
Why is it windows insists on completely changing the look of their programs so that you don't know where any buttons are? They did it with IE7 which drives me mad because I have to use it over Firefox at work.
Fuck Microsoft, they deserve it

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jackanape, on 7/13/2007 3:30:40 PM
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The title of this article is wrong. That would be 60 million people running a shitty OS. I got xphome as a bundle, which is the dog's ass so I run xp pro instead. I bought it once, that should be enough.

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