Community weekly poll: Be honest, are you running a legitimate version of Windows?
- 2/20/09 2:17 PM
Be honest, are you running a legitimate version of Windows?
by Lee Koo (ADMIN) - 2/20/09 2:17 PM
Be honest, are you running a legitimate version of Windows on your PC?
Yes
No (Why not?)
Not sure (Please explain why you are unsure.)
seriously?
by Brons2 - 2/20/09 6:05 PM In reply to: Be honest, are you running a legitimate version of Windows? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
are you attempting to masquerade as the microsoft police?
come on leekoo, this is disingenuous.
LEGIT WINDOWS VERSION
by STASHMO - 2/20/09 6:07 PM In reply to: Be honest, are you running a legitimate version of Windows? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I owned and operated a business for two decades. I always believed that, to be treated fairly, I should always play fairly.
I have been stunned and surprized only once, when a long-time client "lost" a shipment of models to his practice. A professional aquaintance of mine attended the seminar where the models were used.
That 'lesson' cost me $1,100 but it did not change my mind.
Microsoft, despite some flaws is a mostly "squared-away" enterprise.
Hmm...
by ramo89 - 2/20/09 6:29 PM In reply to: Be honest, are you running a legitimate version of Windows? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Do what you want, ‘cause a pirate is free,
YOU ARE A PIRATE!
Yar har, fiddle di dee,
Being a pirate is alright to be,
Do what you want ‘cause a pirate is free,
You are a pirate!
(spoken)You are a pirate!
(crowd)Yay!
We've got us a map, (a map!)
To lead us to a hidden box,
That's all locked up with locks! (with locks!)
And buried deep away!
We'll dig up the box, (the box!)
We know it's full of precious booty!
Burst open the locks!
And then we'll say hooray!
(changes to electronic euro-pop crap music)
(girl's voice)Yar, har, fiddle di dee.
If you love to sail the sea,
You are a pirate!
(spoken)Weigh anchooor!
Yar har, fiddle di dee,
Being a pirate is alright with me!
Do what you want '‘cause a pirate is free,
You are a pirate!
Arr yarr, ahoy and avast,
dinky-dink-dink-a-dinkadefast!
Hang the black flag
At the end of the mast!
You are a pirate!
Hahaha! (Yay!)
We're sailing away (set sail!),
Adventure awaits on every shore!
We set sail and explore (ya-har!)
And run and jump all day (Yay!)
We float on our boat (the boat!)
Until its time to drop the anchor,
Then hang up our coats (aye-aye!)
Until we sail again!
(girl's voice)Yar, har, fiddle di dee.
If you love to sail the sea,
You are a pirate!
Laaaand ho!
Yar har, fiddle di dee,
Being a pirate is alright with me!
Do what you want ‘cause a pirate is free,
You are a pirate!
(spoken)Yar har, wind at your back, lads,
Wherever you go!
(singing)Blue sky above and blue ocean below,
You are a pirate!
(spoken)Hahahahaa!
You're a pirate!
lost xp installation disk
by jabzeer - 2/20/09 6:32 PM In reply to: Be honest, are you running a legitimate version of Windows? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
i had a windows media center 2005 oem edition installed with vaio laptop. but unfortunately i lost the disk . so know iam using a pirated version can anybody help me to solve this
thanks in advance
Legit XP
by Jerry Blaz - 2/21/09 7:23 PM In reply to: lost xp installation disk by jabzeerI bought my XP disk many years ago, and installed it without a problem with the numeric code. Then I had to reinstall XP and discovered that I misplaced the disk. So I installed an "illegitimate" disk until I found my legit XP disk. Over time, I had to discard my computer and bought a second-hand Dell. The number on the Dell case is a real XP number, but when I installed the disk on it with the number on the Dell case, it was not accepted by MS. After working with this same "illegitimate" disk, I finally discovered my original disk, but now I don't have the number for it. I thought that if I installed it, MS would recognize it and have a record of me as the legitimate purchaser of it somewhere, but it doesn't work that way. I get all kinds of warnings from MS, that my disk is not proper and inferring I will get damage to my OS. I get these messages when I boot and when I'm working, sometimes interfering with my work. I tried to talk to someone at MS. It didn't help.
However, I gave Gates & Co. enough money for the XP when I bought it originally, and I surely don't want to by a Vistas which has been, according to the concensus, a big fat flop. I believe that a software company should get its due, but it shouldn't get more than its due. There is a difference between security and robbery.
Jerry Blaz
No. I am not using a legitimate copy of Windows
by rccoffee - 2/20/09 6:41 PM In reply to: Be honest, are you running a legitimate version of Windows? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I am a Macfan so I am using a legitimate copy of OS X-Leopard.
lol
Of course
by Mr Dandee - 2/20/09 6:51 PM In reply to: Be honest, are you running a legitimate version of Windows? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I work on a laptop and for the (high) price I paid for it years ago they gave me a legitimate version of XP; which apparently cannot be installed anywhere else.
Too many computers
by RobertBrown30 - 2/20/09 7:00 PM In reply to: Be honest, are you running a legitimate version of Windows? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Not Sure
Lessee - there's the main computer on Vista, A laptop on XP Pro upgrade, an XP Media center and a Windows Home Server - all legit.
There's a copy of XP Home on an MP3 player and a kid's computer. MS didn't balk at regisitering.
Have Windows 7 on an eeePC. But it did come with XP.
A kitchen computer and a test computer are on XP Home (same as above 2) with a serial number that uhhhh.. I guessed. Yah that's it.
you're kidding, right?
by psychomichael - 2/20/09 7:26 PM In reply to: Be honest, are you running a legitimate version of Windows? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I will never...ever...EVER, pay for Micro$oft software.
I use Linux, so I don't have to.
can't afford it
by darkr - 2/20/09 7:38 PM In reply to: Be honest, are you running a legitimate version of Windows? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
i bought a x64 version with my pc but it wouldn't work with my printer or some hardware so i had to downgrade to 32bit version
oem licenses are still 120bucks 
its not cheap to buy it again
No, I am not running a legitimate copy of Windows anything
by purposed - 2/20/09 8:00 PM In reply to: Be honest, are you running a legitimate version of Windows? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Because I am running Ubuntu.
(you did ask).
(but I, conversely, am not asking people to flame me for answering your question)
Windows Xp legitimacy
by Eirinn2 - 2/20/09 10:08 PM In reply to: Be honest, are you running a legitimate version of Windows? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Like Gary, I purchased my current computer second-hand, but from a second-hand computers business.
The installer did not leave the disk with me, I forget his reason why not and I was too naive to insist otherwise.
This computer started giving me problems almost immediately that the business I bought it from could never fix adequately. To cut a long story short I eventually lost trust in this business' ability to repair computers. So I went elsewhere and discovered this business has a shoddy reputation in their business dealings. Asking around only reinforced this information. The business has since closed down.
When Microsoft announced they were releasing a tool for consumers to find out if their Windows software was legit or not I was determined to use it to find out for sure.
I had trepidation about it as given my prior experiences with this second-hand computer, I was really worried the Windows software on it was illegal.
It was such a huge relief to discover the version of Windows XP Pro on this computer is legitimate! YAY!
This experience has put me right off ever purchasing a second-hand computer ever again!
all my software is legit
by tazadsldevil - 2/20/09 10:16 PM In reply to: Be honest, are you running a legitimate version of Windows? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I do not want to be at risk, on my mainpc i run a legit vista home premium, on the gamepc a legit version of xphome, on laptop 1 a legit version of xppro, and on laptop2 also a legit version of windows xppro. Why all legit software?
because i use my systems also for business as well, and i do not want to risk that my files come corrupt over the line.
Illegal users "eventually get right"
by WilliamHarper - 2/20/09 11:15 PM In reply to: Be honest, are you running a legitimate version of Windows? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I used to work in software retail, and I remember an industry publication that reported on a piracy survey. The result was this:
Software "pirates" are really "trial-ware" users. The survey concluded that most illegal users eventually upgraded to legal copies for back-up media, feature enhancement, books and support. In other words, the “pirates” enjoyed trading programs more than using programs – it’s a game. The illegal serious users bought into legitimate software, at some point.
And you don't think the major software companies fully understand this fact?
Therefore if, as this current CNET survey states, it is true that 7% of serious PC users, i.e. CNET members, are illegal for XP, what’s the big deal? They will all have to upgrade at some point.
I postulate that CNET users are far more representative of high-end PC users than the population as a whole. Recognizing that running a patched, illegal copy of XP requires some PC expertise, probably outside the skills of a typical PC users (the group that wouldn’t know anyway if they were illegal), I submit that the piracy rate across the US for all demographic is more likely under 2%.
The shoplifting loss rate for retailers was 0.92 percent of all sales, and employee theft accounts for 44% of all retail losses.
An AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety survey shows that 20 percent - one in every five - of all fatal crashes in the United States involve drivers who should never have been on the road in the first place due to the fact they were unlicensed.
There are estimates that 25% - 40% of the drivers in California have no automobile insurance. Probably 15% of the population of the United States has no right to be there, i.e. illegal immigrants.
While the Census Bureau estimates there are 9 million illegal aliens living in the U.S., other sources put the figure closer to 20 million. Running parallel to those estimates are the best guesses on the number of unlicensed motorists – 17 million.
In addition, the states with the most illegal aliens also have the most unlicensed drivers. Those states are also in the lead for the most hit-and-run accidents, according to reports issued by the Fatality Analysis Reporting System and the Pew Hispanic Center. California ranks at the top with 24.1 percent of the known 11.1 million illegal aliens.
And 7% of serious PC users, i.e. CNET members, are illegal for XP.
What’s the bigger problem?
References:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2000_July_12/ai_63326007
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51667
http://www.smartmotorist.com/traffic-and-safety-guideline/deadly-drivers-one-fatal-crash-in-five-involves-an-unlicensed-driver.html
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