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[News] [Rival] Microsoft Office Goes Out of (Users') Control

Microsoft accidentally delivers Office Genuine nagware

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| Microsoft is acknowledging that on April 15 it accidentally delivered its new 
| Office Genuine Notifications to users outside of its planned pilot areas of 
| Chile, Italy, Spain and Turkey.  
| 
| [...]
| 
| Microsoft officials said earlier this month that the company planned to add 
| the notification mechanism to Office for users in the four aforementioned 
| trial countries — by making it a voluntary Microsoft update — so that it 
| would remind repeatedly those running illegal copies of Office (or those 
| deemed illegal by Microsoft’s Genuine Advantage mechanism) to stop running 
| pirated software.     
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1348

Microsoft thrives in copyrights infringement, by its very own admission
(references appended). This is suicidal anywhere but the rich countries.
There's also this:

Microsoft 'Albany' subscription--this must be a hoax

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| Seriously, this is pointless junk. The only real value is to Microsoft who 
| get to see usage patterns and understand how on-demand software is consumed.  
| The offering itself is junk and a bit embarrassing when you consider that you 
| can get all that and more online, with no installer, for free.  
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13846_1-9922644-62.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NegativeApproach

Too little, too late. Dying business models and ageing cash cows that produce
little or no milk.


Related:

Microsoft Happy with the Evolution of Windows Vista Piracy

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| But the truth is that Microsoft is happy with the way Windows Vista
| piracy is evolving. Is there a catch to this? No. The fact of the
| matter is that Windows Vista has delivered a heavy blow to
| software counterfeiters. The reason for this is the new Windows
| Genuine Advantage security mechanism integrated into the
| operating system.
| 
| You may not notice this on the surface. On the surface, the
| Internet is crawling with Windows Vista cracks, hacks and
| workarounds. On the surface, every Windows Vista edition has
| been cracked and is available for download via peer-to-peer 
| networks. But this is not the true extent of Windows Vista piracy.
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Happy-with-the-Evolution-of-Windows-Vista-Piracy-50577.shtml


Governments Must Reject Gates' $3 Bid to Addict Next Billion PC Users 

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| "Microsoft's strategy of getting developing nations hooked on its
| software was clearly outlined by Bill Gates almost a decade ago," said
| Con Zymaris, CEO of long-standing open source firm Cybersource. 
| 
| Specifically, Bill Gates, citing China as an example, said:
|  
|   "Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but
|   people don't pay for the software," he said. "Someday they will, though.
|   As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours.
|   They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to
|   collect sometime in the next decade."[1]
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http://www.cybersource.com.au/press/gates_set_to_addict_next_billion.html


Why the illegal market determines the success of your software
 
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| Vista however was marketed as being harder, better, faster, stronger 
| and more importantly - nigh uncrackable. Which proved a problem 
| because it made uptake noticably slower than that for XP. However, 
| things might have changed now because some awfully clever people
| managed to crack Vista (apparently). This might have caused a 
| shift in demographics because users are now potentially able to 
| sample the "delights" of Vista without paying massively 
| inflated prices.
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http://www.seopher.com/articles/why_the_illegal_market_determines_the_success_of_your_software


Chinese attitude on buying Vista

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| I've mentioned above,the price of Vista is higher than RMB2000 (about
| USD257) may not shake users in developed countries, but do you know it
| is equal to the average monthly salary in China's economic center
| Shanghai!So please take this fact into consideration before
| criticize our behavior of buying pirate softwares.
| 
| recent survey of public opinion from China's portal NetEase shows that 81%
| of netizens think Microsoft is forcing them to use pirate Vista...
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http://ya.iyee.cn/2007/02/chinese-attitude-on-buying-vista.html


Why Piracy Hurts Open Source

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| "...John looks at this from a different direction. He shows you why
| software piracy hurts Open Source software--the free stuff you are using."
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http://www.tuxmagazine.com/node/1000266


Microsoft seals its Windows and opens the door to Linux

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| Now comes the really interesting question. With Vista's activation
| technology, Microsoft has the power to stamp out piracy everywhere. But
| will it choose to do so everywhere? After all, if folks in China or
| Thailand or Ethiopia have to pay for Vista, they won't be able to run
| it because they won't be able to afford the licence fee. In which case
| they may finally wake up to the attractions of free software such as
| Linux - and it's easy to imagine what that will do to Microsoft's
| plans for world domination.
|
| It's a delicious prospect: Microsoft impaling itself on the horns
| of a dilemma it has created for itself. Roll on Thursday.
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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1956941,00.html

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