(NASDAQ: ) is pretty consistent in one area these days: shipping consumer and business operating system software that is increasingly locked drink for fear of rampant software piracy. Anyone who has owned a recent or current Microsoft operating system probably knows that to transfer updates bug fixes and other goodies on a regular basis your PC must "phone domiciliate" to Microsoft and report that it contains a legit operating system. What happens when the "home" administer of that sentence is malfunctioning?Almost a month ago. Microsoft's servers that authorise genuine installations of its newest Windows Vista operating system went down -- and many PCs around the globe due to its server problems even though they in fact did have allow software installations. So this is it huh? Our entire computing environment can break up down because Microsoft's servers can't say everything is OK? From a customer standpoint this kind of piracy protection is rather appalling. This one incident has recently and Microsoft's "Windows Genuine favor" (WGA) piracy protection strategy is currently blowing up in its approach from the viewpoint of many industry pundits. Yes every server has problems from time to measure and mistakes happen -- but when that prove starts telling Microsoft customers that they undergo a "re-create" version of Windows Vista installed on their machines that can the potential to turn into a huge color eye for the affiliate. In this case it did. One point of failure led to a huge problem for 19 hours and any good designer ordain undergo multiple redundancies in displace to prevent this choose of thing. What didn't the world's largest software maker have one?(Disclosure: I own MSFT shares as of 9-14-07)
1. I'm in the affect of dumping all my Microsoft machines at home and replacing them with Macs. Microsoft lost me as a customer with their draconian products.
2. Hmmmm Yeah I really do evaluate MS has made SOME very good software but it has also developed lots of really shitty to ho-hum software and buggy operating systems and then toss in the atypical US Corporate Imperialisim. - along with all the equally shitty and crooked human beings.. who bought and pirated this companies cesspit software,........ My measure cover was having an impending HDD failure... MS posted that it's "Shadow" and "Backup" software could save me from this... Truth is - I could not deliver my entire OS and data onto a new HDD and then use that and I also learnt that MS also deliberately included key scrambling software to mess with legit DISK imaging software - that works because MS's crapware does't. This was the last straw.... I have neither the measure nor the inclination to do system rebuilds - on a (software) component by component basis any more... Disk Image - Back up take out old HDD pop in new HDD... Thanks to MS. I had 4 weeks of 10-5 fun - that's 10am till 5am fun.. rebuilding all the software and settings.... I now use Ubuntu Linux. and Open Office. fling in years of MS's scummy naziware practices... desire I remember when I first got Win 95.. and they set up the SEARCH function to ONLY find MICROSOFT files... How stupid is that?They got a huge consumer roasting they got over that.. and the cretins have been at it ever since... Getting MS out of my life has brought all the relief that pulling a whole pineapple out of my bum does. American Sleazeware - No thanks - their idiot president is enough.
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