Poll: Do you have legal copies of Windows?

Do you have totally legal Windows licences?

  • All of my PCs are legally licensed

    Votes: 330 59.5%

  • Most of my PCs are legally licensed (66%+)

    Votes: 67 12.1%

  • Some of my PCs are legally licensed (33%-66%)

    Votes: 45 8.1%

  • Few or none of my PCs are legally licensed (<33%)

    Votes: 113 20.4%
  • Total voters
    555
I bought my retail version of windows vista ultimate 32 and 64 for a lot cheaper as the box was badly damaged in transit there for i refused to pay the full price but the discs were not damaged thankfully, i honestly cant understand, putting r&d aside, why the hell master-bates charges so much for his products when he has a personal fortune of 40+ Billion pounds and the company is worth even more its just pure greed, they are good products but not worth any where near the amount his company charges, he could afford to pay his employees and put the price of his products down by 50% and still make a huge profit, but what other OS supports all the games and hardware we use eh.
 
if i bought the retail version of vista, and then installed it on all 3 of my machines, are they all legit or is only 1 of them legit and the other 2 dodgy? even though they are all my pc's and in the same house, etc.
 
one computers got pre installed copy of vitsa Home
1 laptop with a copy of vista ultimate
and my pc is running a VLK of XP pro that i stole from somewhere
 
Dicehunter said:
i honestly cant understand, putting r&d aside, why the hell master-bates charges so much for his products when he has a personal fortune of 40+ Billion pounds and the company is worth even more its just pure greed, they are good products but not worth any where near the amount his company charges, he could afford to pay his employees and put the price of his products down by 50% and still make a huge profit, but what other OS supports all the games and hardware we use eh.
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What a stupid argument. In fact I'm finding it hard to put just how stupid that comment actually is.

Vista cost $10Bn to develop, that cost must be recouped and profit needs to be made for future developments. MS is a business, not a charity.

Burnsy
 
10 Billion, WOW what did they spend it on, the packaging LOL
p.s i have never met a bigger bunch of brown noses in my life as i have on this forum, why always sticking up for the rich people.
 
Dicehunter said:
10 Billion, WOW what did they spend it on, the packaging LOL
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Yes, they spent it all on the packaging. :rolleyes:

*Sigh*

Dicehunter said:
p.s i have never met a bigger bunch of brown noses in my life as i have on this forum, why always sticking up for the rich people.
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No, sticking up for common sense. Well done, you have failed to have a mature debate.

Burnsy
 
My laptop is running Windows XP MCE fully licensed, as is my desktop running Windows Vista home premium 64. I will admit I used a corporate license for XP when I had it on my desktop pc but looking for ways around validation etc is just too much of a hassle for what it's worth, I'm working now and could easily affoard Vista and the people who spend countless hours developing this stuff to have it stolen from them makes me feel kinda bad when you reflect on the whole situation.
 
Burnsy2023 said:
Yes, they spent it all on the packaging. :rolleyes:

*Sigh*



No, sticking up for common sense. Well done, you have failed to have a mature debate.

Burnsy
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Normally Burnsy and I jest around with each other but he is spot on here. Developing a new OS isn't as simple as opening Visual Studio and selecting a "Develop new OS wizard". Microsoft will have had hundreds, if not thousands of staff ploughing many (wo)men-hours into making Vista. Making an OS as featured and capable as Vista would require a massive source code. You'll need to brainstorm ideas for what the new OS will do, look at where the previous OS can be improved etc. Then getting down to coding it all, then testing it, then fixing the bugs, then testing it again, then fixing the bugs. The OS has to support many different computer specs such as single core, dual core, quad core processors, different amounts and speeds of RAM.

Of course it took Microsoft $$$ to develop Vista.

For $10bn the packaging is very nice though. :p
 
LOL i was only fooling round to get things going as i didnt see a good arguement yet lol, but yes fully licensed version of vista ultimate 32.
 
I have licensed copies on both my desktop and my laptop - Laptop obviously came with an OEM License (Dell D620) and the license on my my main machine was given to me free by Uni.

Got a Vista Business license as well.
 
Yep all machines in this household are running legal OEM copies of windows.

2 x laptops on Windows Vista (one on Business and one on Home.. I also have a Windows Vista Ultimate disc here which I haven't used since Business was good enough for me)

1 x laptop on Windows XP Home

1 x Desktop PC on Windows XP Home

1 x Broken PC on Windows XP Pro (motherboard/cpu is fried :( )
 
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