Microsoft: Vista piracy rate is half that of XP

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Microsoft said Monday that it's seeing piracy rates for Windows Vista that are half those of Windows XP.
Now cynical me wanted to write this up as "even pirates prefer XP two to one over Vista," but that wouldn't be fair. In reality, the decline in piracy rates is largely due to the fact that Vista is much tougher to fake than XP.
"Piracy rates are lower because it's harder," Microsoft Vice President Mike Sievert said in an interview Monday.
There are a variety of reasons for that, including the fact that businesses no longer have volume license keys that can be used to activate an unlimited number of machines. Another is the fact that Vista machines that aren't properly activated pretty quickly become basically unusable once they enter "reduced functionality mode." continue....

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^Aah!

thats a good news :twisted:

finally Linux will get that share 8)

Thats really god new.
People shifting to genuine windows .
Thanks to branded computer company..who sell pre loaded windows.

What *cough* less pirated version? *cough*

Sorry i got cold :-D

dont think other way...*cough* :-D

i thinks vista is less pirated only because of its high hardware requirements....lolz

naveen_reloaded said:
What *cough* less pirated version? *cough*

Sorry i got cold dont think other way...*cough*

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marulez said:
Microsoft said Monday that it's seeing piracy rates for Windows Vista that are half those of Windows XP.
Now cynical me wanted to write this up as "even pirates prefer XP two to one over Vista," but that wouldn't be fair. In reality, the decline in piracy rates is largely due to the fact that Vista is much tougher to fake than XP.
"Piracy rates are lower because it's harder," Microsoft Vice President Mike Sievert said in an interview Monday.
There are a variety of reasons for that, including the fact that businesses no longer have volume license keys that can be used to activate an unlimited number of machines. Another is the fact that Vista machines that aren't properly activated pretty quickly become basically unusable once they enter "reduced functionality mode." continue....

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maybe, but its definitely easier to pirate vista if you use things like the timerstop crack....u dont even need a serial...

i wont use vista
even ms give it for free

i dont have that giant system

but will surely use XP

Abhishek Dwivedi said:
i thinks vista is less pirated only because of its high hardware requirements....lolz

+1

apoorva84 said:
maybe, but its definitely easier to pirate vista if you use things like the timerstop crack....u dont even need a serial...

Edit what you have written.. You can get banned form the forum for talking bout piracy

But i agree...

I 'tried'

vista only once,cudn't stand it more than 4 hours,reverted back to xp.

But vista will soon be top in pirated list ... Give it some time..when xp dies...

^XP will be there supported even in 2009

XP will never die !

Vista is much tougher to fake than XP??

that's bulls**t. There is a tool that turns any pirated copy of Vista to authentic version. You will even get support from Microsoft. autoupdate works like a charm.

The only reason in decline is piracy rate is everyone still prefers XP to Vista (except people like me for whom Vista is working without a single hiccup. Power of getting a lappy that has perfect driver support and vista preinstalled).

xp sp2 will die....bcoz sp3 s around the corner

In reality, the decline in piracy rates is largely due to the fact that Vista is much tougher to fake than XP

oh really!! gud excuse microsoft!!!*gigasmilies.googlepages.com/24.gif

You guys think genuine Vista users like what they got for the hard earned money? .. guess not.. im one for those genuine users who is disappointed with what I got for my money. I spent 3.5K on a Vista certified tv tuner which got gold award in Digit mag .. and vista MCE doesnt even detect it...

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^^lol.pirates are happier than genuine users!

M$ thinks too much about piracy,IMO they should care about their genuine customers rather that thinking about ways of stopping piracy cos all the efforts are futile,there are people who are better than them.

Charan said:
You guys think genuine Vista users like what they got for the hard earned money? .. guess not.. im one for those genuine users who is disappointed with what I got for my money. I spent 3.5K on a Vista certified tv tuner which got gold award in Digit mag .. and vista MCE doesnt even detect it... ..

Which TV Tuner is it?

gx_saurav said:
Which TV Tuner is it?

its Leadtek Winfast Palmtop TV

Person pirates Vista thinking it is something amazing. Then finds that it sucks and goes back to XP.
Person buys Vista thinking that it is something amazing. He has to use it cause he has spent so much on it

Therefore: More Vista users are using genuine Windows.

Vista is not more difficult than XP to pirate...

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I wont be touching Vista tilla SP2 for Vista is out

true. I was at a shop in nehru place for an hour searching for some cd and 3 users bought xp in that time. noone even asked for vista. ;-)

Hope I don't get kicked out of the forum.

goobimama said:
Vista is not more difficult than XP to pirate...

Vista is not more difficult than XP to install & use

Vista is not more difficult than XP to install & use

But while doing that it uses up a ton of resources and half your hardware doesn't work while doing the same tasks XP does.

goobimama said:
But while doing that it uses up a ton of resources and half your hardware doesn't work while doing the same tasks XP does.

equate
pirate = install&use

The only reason the piracy rate is low is that vista is a total blunder. i had a look at a thread somewhere in this forum about vista's experience rating or something like that and people with decent hardware were getting low numbers. it costs general people money to buy new hardware and just to install vista i would definitely not want to upgrade my few year old computer.
i have 256MB ram, 2.2GHZ and XP works (5GB) fine in it and ubuntu 7.04 (32GB) also runs great

equate
pirate = install&use

I wonder why people call me stupid sometimes. Now I know...