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Old 16th April, 2008, 03:49 PM
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Microsoft Exec Lashes Out At Users, Journalists Over Vista Upgrade Loophole

One Microsoft executive is rather ticked at sneaky users and their "hacks".

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Old 16th April, 2008, 04:06 PM
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Those dirty haxizers!%!(*!

Honestly, I'm quite surprised that Microsoft let this happen. I remember when XP claimed I had a pirated copy with WGA a while back, and I had to call in and do all sorts of crap to get that sorted out. They went from blaming the innocent to blaming no one....interesting.
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I wouldn't be mad that people are buying the upgrade version and saving themselves a few bucks, be glad they are buying it at all.

Out of all the Vista install hacks this one is probably the least of their worries..
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I wouldn't be mad that people are buying the upgrade version and saving themselves a few bucks, be glad they are buying it at all.

Out of all the Vista install hacks this one is probably the least of their worries..
My guess is that they are glad that they're shifting this OS of questionable merit off of the retailer's shelves. "Clueless criminals?" why some people see MS this way--except for the legion of lawyer backed fine print karap.
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MS? I think I use to use them when they made a OS, back before when OS's became free....
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