Is your Windows for realz?

I use a CD-R copy of WinXP Pro with a illegal key. I don't really see the point in paying if I'm forced to upgrade every serveral years (due to new programs only running on the newest OS). Hell, you can't even play some newer games on Windows 2000, even though it's only one year older than Windows XP. I chose not to install that WGA BS Merv mentioned. Funny how doing a manual install allows this.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

If I had a legit CD-Key, I'd just use it on my corporate edition, no Activiation BS needed. Hopefully Vista will have a Corporate edition, that way I can screw with; it until I get pissed off by how slow it runs and then uninstall it... Only to use it again a year later like I did with Windows XP.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

My plans for Vista are simple, if I can't crack it, I'll just use my sister's university connection to get a legitimate copy. She won't want to run it on her MacBookPro anyways.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by pengudeus

You mean people actually pay for their Operating Systems?

Yes, and every time you buy a PC from HP, Dell and company you still pay for the OS, which is why some pissed Linux users have asked Microsoft to pay them back for an OS they don't use.

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Originally Posted by RacinReaver

Did they seriously do that? If so, I've lost even more respect for Linux users.

Seriously, but if you were charged over $100 for software you don't use, wouldn't you be mad too.

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Originally Posted by RacinReaver

You can get systems from Dell Business and Education sites that don't come pre-installed with an OS, so I'm not really feeling any sympathy.

Not to mention that MS gives Dell and other large manufacturers discounts for the massive quantities of licenses they purchase (and additional discounts for making every computer come with Windows), making the price of a Windows license surely less than half of those you'd find in an OEM box. If they wouldn't put Windows preinstalled on all of their systems, the price of all other home boxes they'd sell would go up considerably. Personally, I doubt Dell minds pissing off the whole ten people in the country that want to buy a pre-built Dell and install Windows on it in order to save all their other clients money.

I mean, seriously, how many people do you know that use linux and don't build their own systems?

No one really, what self-respecting Linux user would buy a Dell in the first place? Only those 0.00001% of Linux users who have a hard on for Dell, HP, Sony, etc are going to complain about this. I'm sure though with $200 Dells now, you can be Damn sure the ~$90 (OEM WinXP Home Price), didn't fully factor into that $200; in fact I'm sure Intel charged Dell more for their shitty integrated video

(fuck it's strange how the dancing milk fits in with every song I listen to).

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As of right now I'm running Windows XP Pro under an illegal VLK CD-Key. I do in fact have a legal Windows XP key, but it's for the Academic version and switching to that key makes Windows activation act up (that and it also can't be used during the installation of the Corporate version of Windows XP), so I'm sticking with the VLK key for now (though it does work with Windows Genuine Advantage, so no need to change).

And as for Windows Vista, well I used the timerlock crack to make the trial period extend itself indefinitely, so that copy is most definitely illegal.

All I can say is I have never paid for a piece of computer software (that isn't a game), so this is all to be expected.

How ya doing, buddy?