This just seems backwards
Their heart might be in the right place, but this just seems backwards. A recent Wired News article about Microsoft’s response to pirated copies of Vista states that,
“Users with a high tolerance for irritation can put off switching to genuine software indefinitely, but those who relent and buy a real copy of Windows can do so at reduced prices – $119 for Windows Vista Home Premium, half the regular retail price.”
So, basically, they’re turning it into nagware, but if you’re a pirate who wants to go legit, you can get half off on Windows Vista. Not much incentive to buy Vista the usual way. It probably doesn’t matter much since not that many people are switching to Vista period, but it feels like a step in the wrong direction.
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December 13th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
I believe the ‘nag’ system is supposed to be an improvement over the old version that removed functionality from parts of your system. So in that way it is ‘better’, but a ‘better’ idea from Microsoft is generally still a bad idea. :)
Vista has lead me to buy 1 Mac so far and I will be buying another in about a year. I’ll stick with XP as long as I can on my Windows machine.
December 13th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Why buy it the right way when you can pay a lower price for doing it the wrong way? Jeez.