Microsoft slams down on software pirates

Baxteen said:
I believe this is a bad move.

Microsoft should sell is product at ridiculous prices, people who choose to use it should pay the price, those who counterfeit it should be arrested. Quietly, do not make a media spectacle about it.

the rest of us will use open source software, and get better performance off our computers.

its just a matter of time MS, Android is having fun smothering apple, while BB and WP dies out on its own, there is already a Chromebook, a few years from now, the idea of having a windows based computer will seem as strange to us as the idea of having an operating system that does not use a mouse does to us now. Greed will always be your demise.

10 years and no more windows.
25 years and no more google.

fact.
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I can tell you now that Windows has had it.
Everything is moving to ARM processors, and Windows was never written for that. Nobody wants a proprietary OS that costs a mint when they can get a far superior offering for free. We see this in the embedded world... the rise of this processor architecture is staggering.
 
Koosi said:
I can tell you now that Windows has had it.
Everything is moving to ARM processors, and Windows was never written for that. Nobody wants a proprietary OS that costs a mint when they can get a far superior offering for free. We see this in the embedded world... the rise of this processor architecture is staggering.
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MS already announced in 2011 ARM support alongside their x86 architecture in regard with Intel and AMD. Also deploying MS ARM-based servers, also something IBM will be getting into since they also own an ARM license arsenal.
 
Fulcrum29 said:
MS already announced in 2011 ARM support alongside their x86 architecture in regard with Intel and AMD. Also deploying MS ARM-based servers, also something IBM will be getting into since they also own an ARM license arsenal.
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I generally take press releases/announcements with a pinch of salt.
I have been going with the architecture for some time now. I cut my teeth on Windows CE a while back
 
roguemat said:
Could you explain that?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Windows_Updated_Family_Tree.png
Not to mention that for the first few months you could get Windows 8 for R140.
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True - but you will not be able to run Windows 8 on a 3 year old laptop which is running Vista or Win7. So you will find that your "personal TCO" of Windows will become quite expensive - i.e. a Lenovo laptop purchased in 2012 (running Windows 7 with 4GB RAM and integrated gfx) would not perform well on Windows 8. So you either sit with Windows 7 or get a new laptop. In most cases it is actually cheaper to get a new laptop with the latest OEM OS than upgrading.

Sitting in an environment where we have a mix of Win7 and Win8 office desktops and the amount of internal support (rebuilding of PCs as they just randomly stop working) is staggering. Don't really want to get into a OS X vs Windows vs Linux discussion, since I already know that OS X is best :whistle:
 
MagicDude4Eva said:
True - but you will not be able to run Windows 8 on a 3 year old laptop which is running Vista or Win7. So you will find that your "personal TCO" of Windows will become quite expensive - i.e. a Lenovo laptop purchased in 2012 (running Windows 7 with 4GB RAM and integrated gfx) would not perform well on Windows 8. So you either sit with Windows 7 or get a new laptop. In most cases it is actually cheaper to get a new laptop with the latest OEM OS than upgrading.

Sitting in an environment where we have a mix of Win7 and Win8 office desktops and the amount of internal support (rebuilding of PCs as they just randomly stop working) is staggering. Don't really want to get into a OS X vs Windows vs Linux discussion, since I already know that OS X is best :whistle:
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With Windows 8 MS has stopped the upwards trend of requirements, and it actually runs better than 7 in most cases. I've revived some crappy laptops by putting 8 on it, even if you just hide metro.
 
Koosi said:
I generally take press releases/announcements with a pinch of salt.
I have been going with the architecture for some time now. I cut my teeth on Windows CE a while back
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MS will release Windows 9 either as a desktop product or hybrid and/or keep Win 8.x as a mobile OS. This is all blah blah and speculation, but they will change their market approach with OSaaS/Cloud OS which is likely to be Windows 10, which will be problematic in SA since it will operational on Azure reliant on always-on connectivity... looking at a strange timeline here as we hope that SA's broadband plans will ready to allow the entities abroad to setup here within their own capacity.

How their OS on-demand model will work is debatable, should it be “gratis” then they have to work support and developments in somewhere…

Interestingly, Canonical have deployed their own stacks based on OpenStack, but also partly on Azure and other leading enterprise cloud providers.

However, it likely to see Hyper-V coming to ARM due to depositories based on cloud deployments.
 
MagicDude4Eva said:
True - but you will not be able to run Windows 8 on a 3 year old laptop which is running Vista or Win7. So you will find that your "personal TCO" of Windows will become quite expensive - i.e. a Lenovo laptop purchased in 2012 (running Windows 7 with 4GB RAM and integrated gfx) would not perform well on Windows 8. So you either sit with Windows 7 or get a new laptop. In most cases it is actually cheaper to get a new laptop with the latest OEM OS than upgrading.

Sitting in an environment where we have a mix of Win7 and Win8 office desktops and the amount of internal support (rebuilding of PCs as they just randomly stop working) is staggering. Don't really want to get into a OS X vs Windows vs Linux discussion, since I already know that OS X is best :whistle:
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There is no debate to be had
FreeBSD is the best
followed by: OS X; Windows 8; 7; XP; OS/2

However OS X is provider tied and Windows 8 does fine as a fairly standard (and there is a debate to be had on the word standard) OS to make the system work nicely.

The ;) at appropriate junctures is implied
 
Paul Hjul said:
With a warrant properly authorized by the judicial authorities ...
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House said:
They do not raid - the Hawks do. However, when the Hawks get the search and seizure warrant they are added as part of the warrant as parties allowed to participate in the raid. Works the same with Safact and all the many other smaller private organizations representing bigger companies.
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Technically you are correct, but they state:
Microsoft South Africa and the Hawks have successfully arrested and convicted local software pirates, the company said on Wednesday (12 March 2014).

In co-operation with the Hawks, Microsoft SA’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) executed raids on the premises of various resellers who were identified by Microsoft piracy prevention programmes as being involved in the selling of counterfeit and/or unlicensed Microsoft software.
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The language is just wrong and it gives me the chills. The Hawks are supposed to do the raids, arrests, etc. and the so-called DCU must assist them by bringing along a nerd or two and maybe a lawyer. They should not carry the battering ram and handcuffs.
I concede that that is probably what they did, but that is not what their press release state. They are trying to sound like the strong men here. I know it is semantics, but no private company should even make those noises in a supposedly free and democratic country.
I might not like M$, but they have every right to protect their legal legal position, copyrights and IP. They certainly do not have the right to behave as if they are the police.
 
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