U running Pirated Windows XP Pro?

[davy]

this isn't their first attempt on cracking down on pirating.

they won't make much of any headway in this campaign; they don't know enough about their little beastie of theirs to stop it from getting into people's hands.

 

[Telstra]

^^^^ I already have the win7 crack, just waiting on the RTM.

mmm careful, Microsoft might come here and catch you a live !!!

 

[LukiusCurtiss]

Can't you avoid it by not updating? My main desktop runs a dual boot of both "xp pro" and "vista" (note the quotations marks on those words) w/o any problems so far.

 

[gdude30]

Having dealt with the SoftMod Windows Vista activation crack, Microsoft will start hunting down and “killing” pirated copies of Windows XP Professional, the flavor of the operating system labeled by the company as most popular with pirates.

The software giant has cooked and will release an update to Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications designed to sniff out and flag as non-genuine unlicensed or otherwise hacked copies of XP Pro.


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I like..totally wonder why Windows XP Pro is so popular.

Vista is newer :O

 

[gdude30]

Newer is not always better.

XP had from the beginning decent driver support for already deployed hardware and peripherals, devices already being developed, and that would be. Upgrading to XP was relatively easy, and the system was relatively spry and chipper. The release of the service packs also tended to increase performance.

Vista on the other hand, with microsofts renewed vigor for copy protection, digital restriction management, and all that jazz had problematic driver support. This was derived from Microsoft continually changing the API standards right up until the release date. Most drivers at Vistas release didn't pass window's signing because the driver programmers couldn't keep up with the changes, or in numerous cases were not kept aprised of the changes.

Furthermore, Vista's services are all tightly linked and all processor hogs that eat up quite a few clock cycles. XP on the other hand is more or less compartmentalized and easily customizeable (though it can't hold a torch to 2K for tweaking) Vista updates have also been historically problematic when contrasted against XP's track record.

Oh wow. I did not know all of those reasons. I knew vista was bad I was just being sarcastic.

For some reason I have a life long goal to completely crush microsoft and spread the word of how crap they are and praise apple and bring apple to global domination in computers and technology or something like that...

But shh it's a secret

 

[evilest]

Well maybe if they didn't charge ridiculous prices for unfit Operating Systems that need fixes and patches from the instant you install them then maybe people wouldn't see the need to obtain ghost copies.

 

[GlamPunkCouple]

Technically i am running a pirated copy, but this pc first came with XP in french, which i always found annoying, then i switched to linux, which worked fine for one and a half years, but the last six months everything fell apart (Totem/VLC not being able to play videos correctly, the graphics card driver having dificulties, the system getting incredibly laggy, firefox crashing, etc. etc.) so without being able to find a recovery cd, i simply downloaded that which i already paid for.

 

[Corny]

Aaaaand the new WGA is already cracked by a hacker group. Didn't take them too long