Microsoft: Vista piracy rate is half that of XP

[goobimama]

Person pirates Vista thinking it is something amazing. Then finds that it sucks and goes back to XP.
Person buys Vista thinking that it is something amazing. He has to use it cause he has spent so much on it

Therefore: More Vista users are using genuine Windows.

Vista is not more difficult than XP to pirate...

 

[Tech_Wiz]

I wont be touching Vista tilla SP2 for Vista is out

 

[ilugd]

true. I was at a shop in nehru place for an hour searching for some cd and 3 users bought xp in that time. noone even asked for vista. Hope I don't get kicked out of the forum.

 

[axxo]

Vista is not more difficult than XP to pirate...

Vista is not more difficult than XP to install & use

 

[goobimama]

Vista is not more difficult than XP to install & use

But while doing that it uses up a ton of resources and half your hardware doesn't work while doing the same tasks XP does.

 

[axxo]

But while doing that it uses up a ton of resources and half your hardware doesn't work while doing the same tasks XP does.

equate
pirate = install&use

 

[bibjee]

The only reason the piracy rate is low is that vista is a total blunder. i had a look at a thread somewhere in this forum about vista's experience rating or something like that and people with decent hardware were getting low numbers. it costs general people money to buy new hardware and just to install vista i would definitely not want to upgrade my few year old computer.
i have 256MB ram, 2.2GHZ and XP works (5GB) fine in it and ubuntu 7.04 (32GB) also runs great

 

[goobimama]

equate
pirate = install&use

I wonder why people call me stupid sometimes. Now I know...