Why people spend $150 on bottled water, fast food, 200 cable tv channels, etc. every month but they refuse to actually just buy an OS they will use for years to come is beyond me.
Why Microsoft insists on policing legitimate users is beyond me.
Exactly. If someone wants to circumvent the system they will. There is always a way around it.
It just creates an unnecessary headache for everyone thats doing it the right way.
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LeonardoWake up and smell the glaciersEagle River, AlaskaIcrontian
edited July 2010
I think MS is targeting the pirated copies of unaware users.
Yes, I believe you're correct. There's a seller on our local Craigslist computer pages that routinely sells old, minimum spec, P4-class computers for $125 or less. Oh yeah, they all come loaded with Windows 7, "genuine" no less. She will continue ripping customers off until the roof caves in on her...which it probably won't.
Yes, I believe you're correct. There's a seller on our local Craigslist computer pages that routinely sells old, minimum spec, P4-class computers for $125 or less. Oh yeah, they all come loaded with Windows 7, "genuine" no less. She will continue ripping customers off until the roof caves in on her...which it probably won't.
I sell PC's here and there, and I always let the customer know about the EULA per contract. I give them the OEM disk, I put the sticker on the side, activate it properly, the whole nine, and I tell them this is part of the deal, you paid for it.
Still, I don't think any reasonably informed consumer thinks they are going to get a Windows 7 build for $125. That customer shoulders some of the blame because they don't care, they just want a cheap fix just like anyone else.... I mean you don't buy wrist watches from the guy in the trench coat, or DVD's from the guy laying them on the blanket on some street corner do ya?
Now, I tell ya what, if I see something fishy going on in the Baltimore Metro area, I'm going to report it, because the way I see it, they are dipping into my pocket by undercutting me, doing it the wrong way.
"reasonably informed" doesn't really apply to mass market/first time computer buyers. My parents, for example, have no CLUE what Windows even IS. They just know "a computer" and if computer A is $125 and computer B is $250 they'll take A. They represent a vast swath of computer buyers.
"reasonably informed" doesn't really apply to mass market/first time computer buyers. My parents, for example, have no CLUE what Windows even IS. They just know "a computer" and if computer A is $125 and computer B is $250 they'll take A. They represent a vast swath of computer buyers.
True, we both know plenty of users like this, but I think most adults know a thing thats "too good to be true" Or at least they have a reasonable sense of it.
So, what we are saying, is MS will install the patch, bork peoples systems that had no clue, then outrage will lead them to go after the people that swindled them?
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I am Bobby MillerYukon, OK Icrontian
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Exactly. If someone wants to circumvent the system they will. There is always a way around it.
It just creates an unnecessary headache for everyone thats doing it the right way.
I sell PC's here and there, and I always let the customer know about the EULA per contract. I give them the OEM disk, I put the sticker on the side, activate it properly, the whole nine, and I tell them this is part of the deal, you paid for it.
Still, I don't think any reasonably informed consumer thinks they are going to get a Windows 7 build for $125. That customer shoulders some of the blame because they don't care, they just want a cheap fix just like anyone else.... I mean you don't buy wrist watches from the guy in the trench coat, or DVD's from the guy laying them on the blanket on some street corner do ya?
Now, I tell ya what, if I see something fishy going on in the Baltimore Metro area, I'm going to report it, because the way I see it, they are dipping into my pocket by undercutting me, doing it the wrong way.
True, we both know plenty of users like this, but I think most adults know a thing thats "too good to be true" Or at least they have a reasonable sense of it.
So, what we are saying, is MS will install the patch, bork peoples systems that had no clue, then outrage will lead them to go after the people that swindled them?
Does that really work?