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No Legitimate Vista or Office for me, anymore[ Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#1)
by James Bond on Tue Dec 12, 2006 at 04:28:10 AM PDT

Poor Microsoft. They cannot even sell their own software well.

Not that I want to buy, anyway. Vista and Office 2007 are the most DRM infected crapware right now. They contain all sorts of piracy checks which, if going wrong, can reduce the computer/software to "Reduced Functionality Mode" which is pretty close to useless. Can Microsoft be trusted to make these "piracy checking" perfect? Of course not.

Microsoft cannot even make the WGA (Windows Genuine (Dis)Advantage) crapware for Windows XP work perfectly. If you care to search it is pretty easy to find reports of false positives (that crapware labelling Windows as pirate when it is not), ways to bypass that WGA check or fool the WGA crapware into believing you have a legitimate version of Windows XP, even when you do not.

My suggestion: Do not buy anymore from the crap company known as Microsoft and the other crap company known as Symantec. Just a waste of money. Stick with what you have, and start to explore alternatives now.

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