Better make sure your windows copy is legal...

[iago]

... because anybody who doesn't use WGA by this fall might not get to use their computer:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/29/1657241

[Chavo]

Meh. 
Will it help increase MS's legit sales? probably.
Will it piss a bunch of people off? definately.
Will most of those people be people that wouldn't give MS money anyway? of course.
Will there be a hack to bypass this? I don't see why not.

[CrAz3D]

Cool.

[deadly7]

... because anybody who doesn't use WGA by this fall might not get to use their computer:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/29/1657241

I wonder if this will affect 56k users. :P

[MyndFyre]

Will it piss a bunch of people off? definately.

Tough shit.  The only thing that they have the right to complain about is that they were too cheap-ass to get a legitimate copy of Windows in the first place.

[Ergot]

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Will it piss a bunch of people off? definately.

Tough shit.  The only thing that they have the right to complain about is that they were too cheap-ass to get a legitimate copy of Windows in the first place.

:(

[Chavo]

x86] link=topic=6459.msg77902#msg77902 date=1151688491]

Will it piss a bunch of people off? definately.

Tough shit.  The only thing that they have the right to complain about is that they were too cheap-ass to get a legitimate copy of Windows in the first place.

Will most of those people be people that wouldn't give MS money anyway? of course.

;)

[CrAz3D]

Are there going to be alot of Linux conversions then?.....that'd be interesting

[iago]

Probably some, but not many.  Perhaps more Mac conversions. 

[Warrior]

Lol I'd point someone to Linux before Mac..

[rabbit]

I bet Microsoft would too.

[zorm]

Somehow this sounds like an idle threat to me. It'd go against all common sense and opens the door for a shitload of legal problems to go around 'disabling' windows installs without WGA. The first time some critical windows box gets disabled and Microsoft would be in lawsuit hell.

[BigAznDaddy]

well in that news i better get a genuine copy  :o

[Warrior]

They're getting really aggressive on pirating and I can't blame them really. I'd do the same and then some. If I were them I'd block out all Windows updates unless you pass WGA. I do think their continous checking is somewhat extreme.

[skip]

Heh, I don't need to worry about this, Windows 2000 Pro  :).

2000 Pro always did every I needed, so I never upgraded to XP.