Re: Are you looking to buy Retail WinXP Pro at a cut rate price?
- From: "kurttrail" <dontemailme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 14:26:33 -0400
Americantechie wrote:
> "kurttrail" <dontemailme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> message news:uqASHtskFHA.3148@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Download the "Corp" version of Win XP Pro, file-sharing or torrent,
>> and then run validation, fail, and get MS to sell you a retail copy
>> of 1/2 price!
>>
>> Do the same thing, download Corp XP Pro. Burn a copy to CD on a
>> computer it isn't install on, make up a receipt, and go to the
>> Library and do a search of newspapers for computer shows from a
>> couple years ago. Fill out the forms MS gives you and send in with
>> the CD and receipt, and get MS to send you a retail copy for free!
>>
>> OK, I'm not really advocating anybody doing this, just trying to
>> make a point. If someone is gonna pirate XP to begin with, what
>> makes MS think that people won't be doing things like this?
>>
>> Why isn't retail XP sold at the price that is being offered to
>> people with pirated Windows to begin with?
>>
>> Anyone here that bought retail XP at the full price to begin with,
>> how do you feel now that MS is only charging half the price to those
>> with pirated copies?
>
> I would bet that most copies of Windows are sold preinstalled by the
> OEM of the computer.
Many of those computers sold prior to XP.
> Most large businesses will not play the
> pirating game.
Probably not.
> An upgrade version is really inexpensive.
About the same price of what MS is offering those with pirated XP for a
FULL retail version.
> That
> leaves those people building their own computers that will have to
> dish out a good chunk of change for a full retail version.
Most of those are smart enough to buy OEM instead of paying anothe $150
buck for two free support calls.
> The
> number of people building their own computers has to be a tiny
> percentage of users out there, and this number is probably getting
> even smaller now that prices of new computers are dropping so low. Of
> this small percentage of users there is a much smaller percentage of
> people that are finding ways to get Windows really cheap or for
> nothing at all (using tricks like those you just mentioned.) Many
> people who might want to pirate Windows might not know how to go
> about doing it.
> Because of the above I would imagine pirating is not a huge problem
> for Microsoft in the United States (as compared to a country like
> China.) Microsoft can afford the people that fall through the cracks
> and take advantage of the system.
The piracy percentage was much worse in 1994 before most people owned
their own personal computer than it is today, in the US and the rest of
the world.
> One of the easiest ways to get around the system (and I believe I saw
> this on your website as well Kurt) is to install XP and after the
> records of your activation gets wiped you are free to install and
> activate that copy on another computer. Of course this is not as
> good as having your own copy.
And what the f*#k does your post have to do with my post? It's you have
totally missed the point!
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