Pirates rustle Microsoft's 'Longhorn'

fuuucckkers · Post by **fuuucckkers** » Tue Dec 02, 2003 4:32 pm

No. 1 software firm says operating system, not due until 2005, now selling in Malaysia for $1.58

Read the full article here:
http://money.cnn.com/2003/12/01/technol ... tm?cnn=yes

Anthony · Post by **Anthony** » Tue Dec 02, 2003 5:46 pm

I wouldn't pay a penny for it... Alpha versions arn't exactly my favorite thing in the world with very few exceptions (like when the alphas really are finals but not named as such).

Axilla · Post by **Axilla** » Tue Dec 02, 2003 8:09 pm

interesting

i downloaded longhorn a few weeks ago

i thought asians were supposed to be efficient

Robpol86 · Post by **Robpol86** » Tue Dec 02, 2003 11:54 pm

longhorn was out for download a LONG ASS time ago. i downloaded it months ago but never used it, cuz my friend said that on a 2 GHz pc, it will feel like a 400 MHz computer running windowsxp. and theres rumors that it will send nfo to m$ for antipirating reasons (u can crack it, but i didnt feel like going through the trouble just to try out a buggy'er os)

Timelessblur · Post by **Timelessblur** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 12:12 am

Robpol86 wrote:longhorn was out for download a LONG ASS time ago. i downloaded it months ago but never used it, cuz my friend said that on a 2 GHz pc, it will feel like a 400 MHz computer running windowsxp. and theres rumors that it will send nfo to m$ for antipirating reasons (u can crack it, but i didnt feel like going through the trouble just to try out a buggy'er os)

I think they are working on putting it in. THat can cause a lot of trouble for a lot of us. I be pretty temped to go mac and deal with the lack of software to show what I think of it. (and get a trust win emulator to get around the problem)

Anthony · Post by **Anthony** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 10:04 am

For a lot of us? Speak for your self.

Timelessblur · Post by **Timelessblur** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 3:42 pm

PhaseDMA wrote:For a lot of us? Speak for your self.

I spoke for just my self in my last post....

fuuucckkers · Post by **fuuucckkers** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 5:48 pm

Robpol86 wrote: ... and theres rumors that it will send nfo to m$ for antipirating reasons (u can crack it, but i didnt feel like going through the trouble just to try out a buggy'er os)

It's not rumor. It's fact.

Longhorn is going to be Micro$oft's first OS integrated with the Paladium initiative. If you've heard about their whole "Trusted Computing" scheme a while back ( http://discuss.big-o-software.com/viewtopic.php?t=1812 ), it explains everything.

Pretty scary if you ask me...

Robpol86 · Post by **Robpol86** » Thu Dec 04, 2003 5:30 pm

yes i forgot about that. but theres always a way around it, until hardware gets into the game...

http://www.againsttcpa.com/what-is-tcpa.html

The TCPA was founded 1999 by Compaq, HP, IBM, Intel and Microsoft. But in the meantime around 200 companies joined them. You will find Adobe, AMD, Fujitsu-Siemens, Gateway, Motorola, Samsung, Toshiba and many other well known companies. IBM already sells first desktops and notebooks with integrated TPM.

(i dont like bumping 6 month old threads)

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