Chinese Black Market Selling Win 7 on USB Sticks

[Guest]

And don't you think that perhaps MS itself have a LOT of benefits from this? Why is MS Windows so successful ? BECAUSE MOST PEOPLE USE IT. We all know it's not because people buy their os (most people have pirate copies) it is because the most popular software is for windows and please try to teach a 50-year old to use linux and explain why he can't have MS Office installed as he used to have in his last computer

 

[dextermat]

LMAO

 

[sostupid]

"Those suckers that bought Vista Ultimate, myself included, are screwed," said yet another commenter. "There isn't a chance in hell that I am paying $219 for what should really be Vista SP2. We were promised 'extras' which we never got, now we are being excluded from the pre-order special. Anyway even at $49, it is still too much to pay."

The extras that commenter mentioned refer to "Ultimate Extras," one of the main features Microsoft cited in the months leading up to the 2007 release of Vista Ultimate to distinguish the operating system from its lower-priced siblings. According to Microsoft's marketing, Extras were to be "cutting-edge programs, innovative services and unique publications" that would be regularly offered only to users of Vista's highest-priced edition.

But users soon began belittling the paltry number of add-ons Microsoft released and the company's leisurely pace at providing them. Just five months after Vista was launched, critics started to complain.

Earlier this year, Microsoft dumped the feature, saying that it would instead focus on existing features in Windows 7 rather than again promise extras.

The furor over Vista Ultimate has even reached analysts' ranks. In May, Michael Cherry of Directions on Microsoft urged Microsoft to give Vista Ultimate owners a free upgrade to Windows 7. "It would buy them a lot of good will, and I don't think it would cost them much," Cherry said at the time.

Some of the commenters in the latest Computerworld stories about Windows 7 echoed Cherry.

"I am running Vista Ultimate and feel ripped off by Microsoft because ... [we] never received the extras we paid good money to get," said "Hellfire" in a long comment. "The very least that they should do is offer a heavily-discounted upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate to those that have lost money by purchasing Vista Ultimate."

check google for source

 

[joescalon]

I don't see why MS doesn't sell a USB version of windows. With the netbook market flourishing and upgrade ISOs being sold by MS why not. I have copies of win7 through my school and I took one ISO using vlite (also embedded it's cd key into it) and using a 2gig flash drive put the OS on my netbook. Took me 10mins to make a bootable USB drive with win7 (lite) for my netbook, why can't MS...

 

[kronos_cornelius]

This type of behavior is what makes this news

http://iitrade.ac.in/news-archive.asp?news=1327

ironic and infuriating. China sues Microsoft for IP violation while at the same time stealing Microsoft IP. This is one problem in a series of issues where China takes advantage of the US and the US lets them. Of course some powerful people (in politics and industry) in the US must be getting a lot of money to let it happen. Why get into free trade with countries if you don't have the guts to enforce the treaties.

 

[JohnnyLucky]

Is it possible to get a reasonably good OS for free in the USA? What about the Linux?

 

[Kelavarus]

[citation][nom]kronos_cornelius[/nom]This type of behavior is what makes this news http://iitrade.ac.in/news-archive.asp?news=1327ironic and infuriating. China sues Microsoft for IP violation while at the same time stealing Microsoft IP. This is one problem in a series of issues where China takes advantage of the US and the US lets them. Of course some powerful people (in politics and industry) in the US must be getting a lot of money to let it happen. Why get into free trade with countries if you don't have the guts to enforce the treaties.[/citation]

Don't be an idiot. These are two different companies in China. I can hear a Chinese person saying right now, "This is ridiculous. Microsoft steals IP and yet Blizzard doesn't give us free software." It's not 'China' suing Microsoft for IP violation.

I also doubt these USBs have malware. I lived in China for a bit, and they seem more eager to offer good service there than many companies in the States, even though they're ripping off IP and making patent violations and such. Just because it's pirated doesn't automatically mean they're attempting to do others harm. True, there are some, but not actually that many, in my experience.

 

[mman74]

IP theft happens everywhere and as soon as China is mentioned a segment of the people with an agenda gets negative. Pirate Bay is hosted in Sweden, but everyone portrays them as heroes. Piracy is rampant across SE Asia, and amongst every single developing country - don't be naive.
Movies and CDs are being downloaded everyday in Britain and in the US. Most of these developing countries can barely put food on the table, so some people don't fork out hundreds of dollars on an OS license. What's YOUR excuse - seeing how many people here like labeling people as whole countries, e.g. "CHINA SUES MS".
I am Chinese, but hey all my copies of Windows are legit, and I am NOT in the process of suing MS.