Microsoft: Piracy hurting consumers

SO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT AND STOP:
1) Charging so much for software
2) Making licensing so complicated that one feels inclined to rather not pay and be strung out for getting the wrong thing.

Take Team Foundation Server for one:
TFS 2008 DOES NOT WORK IN A 64 BIT ENVIRONMENT... WHAT????
TFS 2010 DOES NOT WORK ON 64 BIT Windows Server 2003... HUH???

Many peeps have spend the money only to discover this on page why knows what of the manual.
Not even the installation routine warns you that it wont work.
 
Make it affordable to consumers and they will buy the licences.
 
I saw it as that they aren't talking about mom n pop going and downloading a cd here.

This is real piracy, where people who actually are paying are receiving a false copy of the software.

Here is a place where I do actually support them, I don't believe that the few fools who d/l windows, like I did when I had no cash, are the problem
 
"The biggest problem with piracy, though, says Ms Everton, is that there is growing evidence that many local criminal organisations are now involved in counterfeiting to some degree – which effectively means that people who buy pirated goods are funding organised crime."

Tax payers have been paying Billions of Rands toward our corrupt and thieving Government - so what's the diff.
Just more scare tactics to try and force consumers to buy Microsofts ridiculously overpriced software - lower the price and more people will buy rather than pirate.
 
That is the best comment ever, Twister!!! why should we pay a ridiculous amount of money for software when the government is stealing our money....
If Microsoft is bitching so much maybe we should pay our tax money to them.

Im not talking about the retards who go and sell it.
 
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I have two legal XP PC's but have better things to do with the R2400 required to upgrade to Win7, so I have two options: don't upgrade.../... get pirated!

Either way Micro$oft loses, not me, are you LISTENING Micro$oft??!
 
Screw em.

All our work software is legal, most of it is open source thanks to the insane pricing they have always had.
R5K for an office suite that can do the same as Open office? I'll go for the freebies and you can keep the bloated with rubbish nobody uses anyway crap.
 
What utter nonsense, the only company that benefits from selling Micro$oft's products is Micro$oft, with their exorbitant OS & Office pricing!

You don't need to be a rocket scientist to realise why worldwide these product's are pirated - you don't realistically have a choice but to purchase their products, at their highly inflated cost - most local resellers do not even charge commission (except Incredible Corruption); as their products are so overpriced.

I would encourage anyone to pirate Micro$oft's products as the monopoly is encouraged by governments and nothing is done to break up the strangle hold M$ has on the industry.

Just maybe enough M$ products will get pirated that they will be forced to re-look their strategy.

Allen arrives in Cape Town with his extravagant yacht, while people die in China manufacturing M$ product's - what do you expect the outcome to be?
 
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AstroTurf said:
Screw em.

All our work software is legal, most of it is open source thanks to the insane pricing they have always had.
R5K for an office suite that can do the same as Open office? I'll go for the freebies and you can keep the bloated with rubbish nobody uses anyway crap.
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We all know that Microsoft's software is WAY overpriced and the piracy will completely stop the moment they actually make it affordable to everyone.

If we all know what the solution is, why can all the clever brains at Redmond not see it? Are we all geniuses?
 
kingrob said:
We all know that Microsoft's software is WAY overpriced and the piracy will completely stop the moment they actually make it affordable to everyone.

If we all know what the solution is, why can all the clever brains at Redmond not see it? Are we all geniuses?
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No Microsoft along with the music companies are all greedy pigs - simple :D
It doesn't take an genius to figure this out !!
 
Nope. I looked, I am not hurting anywhere.
Thanks for your concern Microsoft.

But, besides that, what support?
Oh, you mean where I call your contact numbers and then get bounced around from one person to another?
That's not support Microsoft.
 
Maybe it says something about the quality of service and rediculous prices that people would rather fund organized crime than get the benefits that come with buying an original.

Economics 101: Business must evolve with the customers, not the other way around.

Microsoft has gotten too used to being so hugely powerful that they can influence consumer behaviour. While major corporations influencing consumer behaviour is a perfectly fair and legitimate practice, never forget that ultimately the consumers are still the source of the money.
 
I have a legit XP key, and every so often, I make a virtual machine with XP on it, and I start up about 10 of them at once. Then I laugh manically as I have cost M$ over 10K!!!!!... then I delete the vm and get on with my life.
 
eltherza said:
I have a legit XP key, and every so often, I make a virtual machine with XP on it, and I start up about 10 of them at once. Then I laugh manically as I have cost M$ over 10K!!!!!... then I delete the vm and get on with my life.
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I really hope you're not working in a responsible position where you have contact with other people or small children. :D
 
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