Windows xp pirate

Pirate copies of XP account for, what, maybe million of Net Marketshare's total? There's no way for Net Marketshare or StatCounter to know when it's been pinged by a pirate. But the numbers are undoubtedly huge. Second, plenty of XP machines that hit the Web regularly rarely get updated. Those are machines that might be counted by the Net Marketshare or StatCounter algorithms, but that would never benefit from Microsoft extending patches beyond April 8.

In many cases, they're probably pwned already. So we're seeing a lot of moral outrage -- well-placed outrage , in my opinion -- about a problem that may be one or two orders of magnitude smaller than I, for one, originally thought.

In the end, the undeniable fact is that we don't know how many PCs are going to get slammed when Microsoft shuts down its XP patches. Not even close. How about it, Microsoft? Of that number, can you say how many were, uh, genuine? Get the first word on what the important tech news really means with the InfoWorld Tech Watch blog. For the latest developments in business technology news, follow InfoWorld.

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I have the same question 1. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Price tags like that should not be seen by home users. A commercial software company that realises they rely on pirated software.

The various software monopolies Windows, Office, Photoshop would not be where they are today without piracy. Similarly by quietly allowing pirated copies of Windows XP Microsoft can sidestep the nightmare of having to support windows 9x.

This is a very intelligent move. Microsoft understand that by pirating Windows people are being locked into to their software. As everyone who has Windows at home understands it, businesses can then save on training their users if they also use Windows.

Microsoft also understand that most worm infected computers are poorly maintained home users. This move is certainly clever and I see it aimed at keeping business customers happy rather than home users. It is just a plain fact that pirated use of MS Windows is huge everywhere, especially in poor countries. I suppose that especially in the 3rd world countries practically everyone but those who have got their legal copy of Windows when buyng a new PC machine, use pirated versions of MS Windows.

So MS is just acknowledging the facts when they allow also the millions of pirate users to update their Windows. Just think if all those people were really not allowed to update oe even use their pirated WIndows copies anymore, what that would do to MS monopoly? People would have to conisider Linux or something else then. Of course it is great that MS allows also those users to update their Windows who would have no money to buy a legal copy of MS Windows anyway.

Nothing bad to say about that decision in itself. But in the end Microsoft is indeed just trying to maintain their desktop OS monopoly here…. It is long known that part of the success for Windows to become the more widespread OS in the world was that it was easily pirated.

This way, millions of users would become proficient Win users and many small bussiness would use their products, getting used to them and then requiring new products that were not available as warez and ultimately buying them. Currently, even with piracy, MS profit grows year after year in the double digit realm. It is unlikely that a significant amount of illegal users had ever buyed licenses due being unable to upgrade.

People will think better of a company that patches security flaws even to this extend, just to protect their user base. As is likely the case, the people who have pirated copies of XP knew where to find it and how to install the software.

And they also know how to better secure Windows, check for viruses etc. And why should they care of that? Most of their software originally got spread by giving it away for free in the first place OEM. So people are used to having the OS for free when they buy a new computer.

Buy a new computer, get windows, office, … So I think they never really cared for piracy that much since it helped to spread their software. Mozilla it is that simple. Think of it — american salary and, say, chinese salary really differ that much. He perpetuates a hateful and shameful stereotype of communists by associating them with software pirates.

His false comments about communists is no different than if he had made racist remarks about Asians pirating software! Because it antagonizes consumers down the road, leading them to jump ship once alternatives are available. What some posters do not understand is that these wroms affect the entire internet. What you will find is increased CPU utilization at the aggregate switches; due to incredible amounts of virus and worm traffic.

You will log more hits to your access-lists and you will see your layer 3 switches start process switching packets like little sissys. What happens then is a DOS effect against your network.