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Originally posted by nanonyme View PostI'd expect them not to care that much. Call me a cynic but I suspect a fake, yet again.
Now, as for this, perhaps it's a fake, perhaps it's not- in the end, though, your call of "not caring" isn't sufficient to call it one.
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Couple things. Microsoft keeps throwing out un named patents at the open source community. This is obviously a fake out scare tactict. If they do have these patents revealing them would like set off a flurry of antitrust suits against the patent office. So they use that tactic like some boogey man in the closet. Not exactly art of war stuff. If they did pull those out it would probably go something like this..
Second. So much of sales is now business. They are hawking $30 copies of windows 7 all over the college community and turning their head to fishy 30 and 45 dollar key sales going on all over the place. Business is done this year. It won't get new budgets till next march and april. So you can pretty much forget a windows 7 flood for quite a while.
Third they yap and yap and yap about everybody stealing windows all over the world and blah blah blah. Which just isn't TRUE. It's used far less world wide than anyone at Microsoft would like to admit. Mostly because it isn't secure. Do you really think the chinese would allow 300 400 million computers to use stuff with THIS in it.
And after you read that you'll understand why all the fighting and fussing over default browsers. Windows 7 is going to hit the world market like a disease. It will be poked and prodded before anyone touches it.Last edited by Hephasteus; 26 September 2009, 10:41 PM.
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Originally posted by Hephasteus View PostThird they yap and yap and yap about everybody stealing windows all over the world and blah blah blah. Which just isn't TRUE. It's used far less world wide than anyone at Microsoft would like to admit. Mostly because it isn't secure. Do you really think the chinese would allow 300 400 million computers to use stuff with THIS in it
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Originally posted by nanonyme View PostGuess it's mostly gamers who are pirating Windows (and their games). As they say, Linux is no threat to Windows as a gaming platform, pirated Windows is.
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Originally posted by nanonyme View PostGuess it's mostly gamers who are pirating Windows (and their games). As they say, Linux is no threat to Windows as a gaming platform, pirated Windows is.
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if people can steal, they will steal. You dont get caught, that simple. Even up here its legal (for now) to a certain extent.
That leads open a whole new can of worms. This is why companies use DRM. If i had to make a rough estimate I would say that about 30% of people who steal dont know how to perform the basics of patching a game's securom and that forces a small number of them to buy the product.
As a gaming platform, sure linux has potential. But it doesn't have DX and X11 still sucks.
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Originally posted by L33F3R View PostAs a gaming platform, sure linux has potential. But it doesn't have DX and X11 still sucks.
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